形けい質しつ転てん換かん

noun

transformation

Technical term in genetics and molecular biology referring to the process by which a cell takes up foreign DNA and incorporates it into its own genome, leading to a change in its characteristics.

• 大だい腸ちょう菌きんの形けい質しつ転てん換かん実じっ験けんを行おこなった。

  We performed a transformation experiment on E. coli.

• この遺い伝でん子しを導どう入にゅうすると、細さい胞ぼうの形けい質しつ転てん換かんが起おこる。

  Introducing this gene causes transformation of the cells.