Meaning & use
Transduced
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Converted energy or a signal from one form into another, or, in biology, introduced genetic material into a cell using a virus.
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The microphone transduced sound waves into an electrical signal.
Scientists transduced the gene into bacterial cells using a modified virus as a carrier.
A note on using this word
"Transduce" has two specialized senses: in physics and engineering it means converting one form of energy to another, as a sensor does, while in molecular biology it refers to the viral transfer of DNA between cells.
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2. verb
Introduced foreign genetic material into a cell by means of a virus.
The virus transduced the resistance gene into the host bacterium.
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