The process of horizontal gene transfer (otherwise known as HGT) can be described as one organism acquiring the DNA of another organism. This can be observed in many types of organisms but is usually performed by prokaryotic organisms - mainly bacteria.
Electroporation is also called as electropermeabilization as a way to introduce some new substance into the cell to change the function of a cell or a piece of coding DNA. The appliance that is used for doing this process is known as electroporator.