Talk:Natural competence

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Merge them. Neither is really long enough to be that helpful, but together you might have something.

Disagree. Competence also refers to inducing processes.

• Support. Incorporate information in Competent cell into a section titled Induction techniques (or thereabouts). --Liveste 07:03, 11 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I'm doing it. But by the time I remove all the misinformation there won't be much left to merge...Rosieredfield 20:25, 2 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

So basically the article says that bacteria become competent through starvation or adversity? 129.31.72.52 09:45, 10 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Revision planned: Six years later, I'm again planning major edits of the Competence and Transformation pages. I'm still learning the ropes; I'll probably do the work in my sandbox. Rosieredfield (talk) 23:04, 12 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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