transformation

transformación

Cambio de aspecto, forma o naturaleza que suele hacer que algo sea muy distinto.

En inglés sencillo: A change in appearance, shape, or nature, often making something very different.

• Her new haircut caused a surprising transformation.
• The garden underwent a complete transformation.
• We watched the transformation of a caterpillar into a butterfly.

Cómo se usa: transformation from A into B (The building’s transformation from a factory into flats took two years.)

Sinónimos: change, conversion

Expresiones frecuentes: complete transformation, undergo a transformation, transformation into something, dramatic transformation

transformación bacteriana

Cambio en una célula bacteriana al incorporar ADN procedente de otra célula.

En inglés sencillo: A change in a bacterial cell after it takes in DNA from another cell.

• Transformation gave the bacteria a new gene.
• The students measured transformation in bacterial cells.
• These bacteria gained resistance through transformation.

Expresiones frecuentes: bacterial transformation, genetic transformation, transformation of bacteria