Answer:
Explanation:
1. Bacterial transformation: it is a process of horizontal gene transfer in which some bacteria take up foreign genetic material (naked DNA) from the environment.
2. In this process, Bacteria Pneumococcus transfers DNA between living type RII bacteria and heat-killed type SIII bacteria and is known as transformation.
3. Those bacteria which have capacity to take up free DNA, Such bacteria are termed as competent cells.
3. In 1928, Griffith done this experiment and called it as transformation.
