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Avery-MacLeod-McCarty experiment
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Transformation (genetics)
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2025-04-24
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1970-01-01
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Current Wikipedia
seems to say that this refers specifically to
cells
taking up
DNA
from other dead
cells
as
in the
Avery-MacLeod-McCarty experiment
, excluding other types of
horizontal gene transfer
like
bacterial conjugation
The term is sometimes just used
a
synonym
for
horizontal gene transfer
in general it seems however.
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