In this article, we discuss transformation, bacterial transformation in particular, and how scientists can utilize it to manipulate bacteria for a plethora of purposes.

This plasmid can be introduced into a bacterium by way of the process called transformation. Then, because bacteria divide rapidly, they can be used as factories to copy DNA fragments in large ...

In a typical electroporation protocol, a positive control transformation is initially carried out using uncut plasmid DNA, and a negative control with no DNA.