Psychological research has demonstrated that living in poverty has a wide range of negative effects on the physical and mental health and wellbeing of our nationâs children. Poverty impacts children within their various contexts at home, in school, and in their neighborhoods and communities.
Transformation. Definition. noun, plural: transformations. (1) The act, state or process of changing, such as in form or structure; the conversion from one form to another. (2) (biology) Any change in an organism that alters its general character and mode of life; post-natal biological transformation or metamorphosis. (3) (genetics) The genetic alteration of a bacterial cell resulting from the transfer of foreign DNA.
Gene conversion. Gene conversion is a form of genetic recombination, in which one version of a gene is observed to replace a different version. At the level of DNA, gene conversion differs from typical homologous recombination in that a duplicate copy of the donor allele appears in the recipient DNA, while the recipient allele is lost.