Generalized Transduction At Biology Glossary

What is it? The transfer of any region of the host chromosome into a recipient cell packaged in phage particles. Each phage particle only carries one region of the host chromosome, but within the population of phage every region of the host chromosome is represe nted. Generalized transduction usually results from an error resulting in packaging of host DNA into a phage particle. Typically such transducing particles only carry chromosomal DNA without any phage DNA.

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