Specializedtransduction. Specialized transductionis the process by which a restricted set of bacterial genes is transferred to another bacterium. The genes that get transferred (donor genes) depend on where the phage genome is located on the chromosome.

Are absorbtive and specialized transduction means the same?

Transductionis the process by which foreignDNAis introduced into a cell by avirusorviral vector.[1]An example is the viral transfer ofDNAfrom onebacteriumto another and hence an example ofhorizontal gene transfer.[2]Transduction does not require physical contact between the cell donating the DNA and the cell receiving the DNA (which occurs in conjugation), and it isDNaseresistant (transformationis susceptible to DNase). Transduction is a common tool used by molecular biologists to stably introduce a foreign gene into a host cell'sgenome(both bacterial and mammalian cells).

When viruses, includingbacteriophages(viruses that infect bacteria), infect bacterial cells, their normal mode of reproduction is to harness thereplicational,transcriptional, andtranslationmachinery of the host bacterial cell to make numerousvirions, or complete viral particles, including the viral DNA or RNAand the protein coat.