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Transformation

• Definition: Change in the genotype of a cell or organism resulting from exposure of the cell or organism to DNA isolated from a different genotype; also, the conversion of an animal cell, whose growth is limited in culture, into a tumor-like cell whose pattern of growth is different from that of a normal cell.

  Source: Essential Genetics: A genomics perspective (2006) 4th Ed.