transducev.
/trɑːnzˈdjuːs/, /tranzˈdjuːs/, /trɑːnsˈdjuːs/, /transˈdjuːs/, /trɑːnzˈdʒuːs/, /tranzˈdʒuːs/, /trɑːnsˈdʒuːs/, /transˈdʒuːs/, U.S. /trænzˈd(j)us/, /træn(t)sˈd(j)us/ 1. transitive. To alter the physical nature or medium of (a signal); to convert variations in (a medium) into corresponding variations in another medium.
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1949 L. L. Beranek Acoustic Measurements xiv. 637 The dynamic range of a microphone is the range of levels of input signals which can usefully be transduced by the instrument. It is..limited at high levels by the amount of distortion which can be tolerated in the transduced signal.
1971 Nature 19 Feb. 530/2 Rhodopsin, a visual pigment found in vertebrate retinal rods, transduces light into a neural message.
1973 Sci. Amer. Sept. 87/1 (advt.) It transduced a heart's faint signals into a squiggly line that the doctor could compare with those produced by other hearts.
1977 Listener 22 Dec. 857/4 Carbon granules..to do their delicate work of transducing sound waves into varying electric currents.
2. Microbiology. Of a virus: to transfer (genetic material) from one bacterium to another; also used with the first bacterium as object. Also, to transfer (a genetic characteristic) from one bacterium to another using a virus.
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the world > life > biology > biological processes > genetic activity > [verb (transitive)] > establish genetic trait as permanent > transfer
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transduce1952
1952 Jrnl. Bacteriol. 64 687 FA [sc. filterable agents] from each of the three LT-7 auxotrophs could transduce the other two.
1965 Virology XXVII. 290 (heading) Variation in composition of chromosome fragments transduced by phage P22.
1973 R. G. Krueger et al. Introd. Microbiol. xiv. 404/2 In contrast to the specialized transducing phages, the viruses P1 and P22 can transduce a variety of genes in the bacterial genome.
1977 Lancet 9 July 94/2 47 gen-r (ex 8799) was a resistant transductant produced by transducing the gentamicin resistance from strain 75/8799 to propagating strain (PS) 47.
Derivatives
transˈduced adj.
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1952 Jrnl. Bacteriol. 64 686 All of the transduced cells were still streptomycin resistant.
1971 G. S. Stent Molecular Genetics xiv. 416 Upon closer examination of the clones of transduced bacteria or transductants..it was found..that all the Gal+ transductants were either actively lysogenetic.., or were at least immune to infection.
transˈducible adj. susceptible to transduction.
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1952 Jrnl. Bacteriol. 64 687 Several galactose-negative mutants were transducible to galactose-positive by FA [sc. filterable agent] from their parental wild type.
transˈducing adj.
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transduced1952
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1952 Physiol. Rev. XXXII. 414 The chemical composition of transducing agents has important implications, if they can be regarded as purified genes.
1962 R. Goldman Ultrasonic Technol. iii. 67 A transducing crystal must also be mounted in some sort of holder.
1973Transducing [see sense 2]. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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