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Transformation involves

  1. uptake of external genetic material, one bacteria to another

  2. creation of a strand of RNA from a DNA molecule

  3. infection of bacterial cells by phage

  4. replication of DNA along the lagging strand
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Explanation

Transformation is the process by which a bacterium takes up naked DNA from its environment and incorporates it into its own genome.

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