Psychological research has demonstrated that living in poverty has a wide range of negative effects on the physical and mental health and wellbeing of our nationâs children. Poverty impacts children within their various contexts at home, in school, and in their neighborhoods and communities.
Transformation. Definition. noun, plural: transformations. (1) The act, state or process of changing, such as in form or structure; the conversion from one form to another. (2) (biology) Any change in an organism that alters its general character and mode of life; post-natal biological transformation or metamorphosis. (3) (genetics) The genetic alteration of a bacterial cell resulting from the transfer of foreign DNA.
Transformation is the mechanism of genetic exchange where DNA is released into the environment (from the donor cell) then taken up and incorporated into the genome of another cell (recipient).ransduction. 1  Understand how the process of gene exchange can lead to a change in genotype (and possibly genotype) of a bacterium. 2  Describe the stages of a virus infection indicating which gene products are made at each stage and their functions. 3  Describe the features of replication of double strand vial DNA.