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State true or false-`In transformation experiment, heat shocks and cold shocks are given to bacteria so that it can become competent.`

State true or false-`In transformation experiment, heat shocks and cold shocks are given to bacteria so that it can become competent.`

Grade:12th Pass

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Simran Vinaik
askIITians Faculty 1230 Points
6 years ago
This is true statement. For 90 sec bacteria are kept on 45 C hot plate then immediately transferred to ice. During this heat shock treatment the bacterial cells become competant to uptake foreign DNA.

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