Step 2 - Transforming competent cells
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Competition between cells?
Well, not really.
'Competent cells are those cells which have the ability to take up extracellular/naked DNA from their environment.
Cells have to be made competent by various methods such as heat shock etc. (Elaborated under Bacterial Transformation [[1]])