Translocation vs Transformation - What's the difference?
translocation | transformation |
Removal of things from one place to another; displacement; substitution of one thing for another.
(genetics) A transfer of a chromosomal segment to a new position, especially on a nonhomologous chromosome; the segment so transferred.
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.
In genetics terms the difference between translocation and transformation
is that translocation is a transfer of a chromosomal segment to a new position, especially on a nonhomologous chromosome; the segment so transferred while transformation is the alteration of a bacterial cell caused by the transfer of DNA from another, especially if pathogenic.As nouns the difference between translocation and transformation
is that translocation is removal of things from one place to another; displacement; substitution of one thing for another while transformation is the act of transforming or the state of being transformed.translocation
English
Noun
(en noun)- There happened certain translocations at the deluge. — Woodward.