Transduction is a process by which DNA is transferred from one bacterium to another by the action of a virus. It is also used to designate the process by which exogenous DNA is introduced into a cell by a viral vector. This is a tool that molecular biologists usually use to introduce a foreign gene in a controlled way into the genome of a recipient cell.
Explanation:
When bacteriophages (viruses that infect bacteria) infect a bacterial cell, their normal mode of reproduction consists in capturing and using the machinery of replication, transcription, and translation of the recipient bacteria cell to produce large numbers of virons, or produce particles. viral, including viral DNA or RNA and protein coat.
