bacterial transformation

Taking up genetic material into the cell from the surrounding environment is a form of bacterial transformation.

It is used as a selectable marker in bacterial transformation.

The experiment they performed, called bacterial transformation, was deceptively simple.

His work on bacterial transformation helped lay the groundwork for the field of molecular genetics.

Sexual reproduction in early single-celled eukaryotes may have evolved from bacterial transformation.

Bacterial transformation is generally the easiest way to make large amounts of a particular protein needed for biotechnology purposes or in medicine.

Natural bacterial transformation involves the transfer of DNA from one bacterium to another through the surrounding medium.

Because of this, electroporation is one of the key methods of transfection as well as bacterial transformation.

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In extant organisms, proteins with central functions in meiosis are similar to key proteins in bacterial transformation.

His pioneering investigations of bacterial transformation helped illuminate the mechanisms by which donor DNA enters and is integrated into a host cell.

In the 1930s, the French enologist Jean Ribéreau-Gayon published papers stating the benefits of this bacterial transformation in wine.

This observation suggests that the natural selection pressures maintaining meiosis in protists are similar to the selective pressures maintaining bacterial transformation.

In 1945, the Royal Society awarded Avery the Copley Medal, in part for his work on bacterial transformation.

Bacterial transformation is a complex process encoded by numerous bacterial genes, and is clearly a bacterial adaptation for DNA transfer.

French microbiologist André Boivin claimed to extend Avery's bacterial transformation findings to Escherichia coli, although this could not be confirmed by other researchers.

Their experiment on bacterial transformation involving the use of ribonuclease, protease, as well as deoxyribonuclease provided more evidence that DNA carries genetic information responsible for pathogenicity.

Both bacterial transformation and meiosis in eukaryotic microorganisms are induced by stressful circumstances such as overcrowding, resource depletion and DNA damaging conditions.

In January 1928 he reported what is now known as Griffith's Experiment, the first widely accepted demonstrations of bacterial transformation, whereby a bacterium distinctly changes its form and function.

Support for the theory that meiosis arose from bacterial transformation comes from the increasing evidence that early diverging lineages of eukaryotes have the core genes for meiosis.

On the view that meiosis arose from bacterial transformation, during the early evolution of eukaryotes, mitosis and meiosis could have evolved in parallel, with both processes using common molecular components.

Thus on the theory that meiosis arose from bacterial transformation, recombinational repair is the selective advantage of meiosis in both single celled eukaryotes and muticellular eukaryotes, such as humans.

DMS is also produced naturally by bacterial transformation of dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) waste that is disposed of into sewers, where it can cause environmental odor problems.