competent [L. competentia - meeting together, agreement, symmetry]. Displaying competence.
Competent
- Refers to bacterial cells that are able to take up exogenous DNA
Complementary DNA ...
competentia - meeting together, agreement, symmetry] The ability or state which renders a cell capable of responding to an inductor or hormone The dorsal ectoderm of amphibian embryos displays competence for neural induction. [P.D.
Synonym: Incompetent, unfit, unable, insufficient, inadequate, deficient, disqualified. See Incompetent.
Origin: Pref. In- not _ capable: cf. F. Incapable, L. Incapabilis incomprehensible.
MINORS AND INCOMPETENT PERSONS
Sec. 141. AUTHORIZATION FOR COLLECTION AND ANALYSIS OF DNA FROM MINORS ...
Transformation involves the uptake of "naked" DNA (DNA not incorporated into structures such as chromosomes) by competent bacterial cells (Fig. 1).
Although Haeckel's ideas are important to the history of evolutionary theory, and he was a competent invertebrate anatomist most famous for his work on radiolaria, most of the speculative concepts that he championed are now seen as incorrect.
Capacitation is the final step in the maturation of mammalian spermatozoa and is required to render them competent to fertilize an oocyte. This step is a biochemical event; the sperm move normally and look mature prior to capacitation.
Although the team had excellent credentials none was truly competent in dealing with hominid fossils; their expertise lay elsewhere. The British museum people, Woodward and Pycraft, made numerous errors of reconstruction and interpretation.
change in mammalian sperm that occurs after exposure to female genital tract making the sperm competent to undergo the acrosome reaction; this change is necessary for penetration of the cumulus matrix and for fertilization.
B cell A type of lymphocyte derived from bone marrow stem cells that matures into an immunologically competent cell under the influence of the bursa of Fabricius in the chicken, and the bone marrow in nonavian species; ...
graft rejection - when immunologically competent graft is transported into an immunologically compromised host, the graft tissue can mount an immunologic attack on the recipient ...
Congression
The uptake of more than one transforming DNA fragment by a single competent cell (occurs most often when a high concentration of transforming DNA is available).
drop below about 400 per µl (normal is >1000), the patients immunity is sufficiently weakened that opportunistic infections begin. These are infections caused by organisms that ordinarily do not cause disease symptoms in immunocompetent ...
coli cells must be made competent before transformation can be carried out.
TransgenicRefers to an organism which carries a stable copy of a gene originating from another species introduced by DNA technology.
 See also: Trans, Organ, Gene, Action, Human
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