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.
Lecture 7. Genetic Transformation (using bacteria and the pGLO plasmid). Genetic transformation is the process by which an organism acquires and expresses a new gene. 1  Genetic engineering is the directed transfer of a gene, or piece of DNA, into a cell (typically a bacteria).