Bacterial cells that cannot readily pick up DNA molecules from their surroundings can be induced to do so by ____.

Name: Bacterial cells that cannot readily pick up DNA molecules from their surroundings can be induced to do so by ____.
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Artificial transformation is a laboratory procedure used to introduce foreign DNA into a bacterial cell. This process can make bacteria, which naturally might not be competent to take up DNA, capable of doing so.

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