{"id":7548,"date":"2019-05-22T15:58:04","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T15:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/competence_-embryology\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T15:58:04","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T15:58:04","slug":"competence_-embryology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/competence_-embryology\/","title":{"rendered":"Competence (embryology)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A reactive state permitting directional development and differentiation in response to a stimulus or organiser. &nbsp;What constitutes an organiser, a concept originally introduced into embryology by <a href=\"http:\/\/almaz.com\/nobel\/medicine\/1935a.html\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/almaz.com\/nobel\/medicine\/1935a.html&amp;target=_self\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hans Spemann<\/a> (1869-1941), continues to be a topic of intense research. &nbsp;The concept of competence in embryology is closely associated with that of sensitive period. &nbsp;In biology, more generally, it refers to the ability of a cell, typically a bacterium, to take up DNA and be genetically transformed.<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"differentiation_-specific-\">Differentiation (specific)<\/a>, <a href=\"embryology\">Embryology<\/a>, <a href=\"dna_-deoxyribonucleic_acid-\">DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid)<\/a>, <a href=\"induction_-embryology-\">Induction (embryology)<\/a>, <a href=\"organizer_-embryology-\">Organizer (embryology)<\/a>, <a href=\"permissive_interaction\">Permissive interaction<\/a>, <a href=\"sensitive_period\">Sensitive period<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A reactive state permitting directional development and differentiation in response to a stimulus or organiser. &nbsp;What constitutes an organiser, a concept originally introduced into embryology by Hans Spemann (1869-1941), continues to be a topic of intense research. &nbsp;The concept of competence in embryology is closely associated with that of sensitive period. &nbsp;In biology, more generally, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/competence_-embryology\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Competence (embryology)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-7548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}