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Transformation vs Algeny - What's the difference?

transformation | algeny |

As nouns the difference between transformation and algeny

is that transformation is while algeny is the transformation of genetic material joshua lederberg, 'experimental genetics and human evolution', american naturalist 100(1966), 519-531;.

transformation

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act of transforming or the state of being transformed.
  • A marked change in appearance or character, especially one for the better.
  • (mathematics) The replacement of the variables in an algebraic expression by their values in terms of another set of variables; a mapping of one space onto another or onto itself; a function that changes the position or direction of the axes of a coordinate system.
  • (linguistics) A rule that systematically converts one syntactic form into another; a sentence derived by such a rule.
  • (genetics) The alteration of a bacterial cell caused by the transfer of DNA from another, especially if pathogenic.
  • (politics, South Africa) Ideologically driven government policy - becoming more conformant with socialist and African nationalist groupthink.
  • Synonyms

    * metamorphosis * transmogrification * transmutation * transfiguration

    Derived terms

    * transformational

    algeny

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The transformation of genetic material. Joshua Lederberg, 'Experimental genetics and human evolution', American Naturalist 100(1966), 519-531.;
  • Any of, and all of, those activities which depend on the handling of genetic material.
  • * 2000 — J. R. Aldergrove, Why We Are Not Obsolete Yet: Genetics, Algeny, and the Future , 5
  • Algeny will eradicate infirmities and deformities of all kinds.

    Derived terms

    * algenic * algenist

    References