Transduction

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Transduction (trans- + -duc- + -tion, "leading through or across") can refer to:

• Signal transduction, any process by which a biological cell converts one kind of signal or stimulus into another
  • Olfactory transduction
  • Sugar signal transduction
• Transduction (biophysics), the conveyance of energy from a donor electron to a receptor electron, during which the class of energy changes
• Transduction (genetics), the transfer of viral, bacterial, or both bacterial and viral DNA from one cell to another using a bacteriophage vector
  • Tbx18 transduction, a cardiac therapy method
• Transduction (machine learning), the process of directly drawing conclusions about new data from previous data, without constructing a model
• Transduction (physiology), the transportation of stimuli to the nervous system
• Transduction (psychology), reasoning from specific cases to general cases, typically employed by children during their development
• A process by which a transducer converts one type of energy to another

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