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Why and how bacteria can be made 'competent'?

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Competent cells are those cells which can take up the DNA from the environment. Bacterial cell can be made competent to take up the recombinant DNA from medium for replication of recombinant DNA for future purpose. Bacterial cells can be made competent by electroporation

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