Sentence examples for poorly competent from inspiring English sources

In LB medium cells normally are poorly competent, and the induction of competence under these conditions demonstrates that the system is able to induce competence under non-competence stimulation conditions.

However, a poorly competent vector may drive intense transmission of arboviruses if other conditions are suitable, such as vector density, daily mosquito survival, biting rate… [ 49].

To achieve this objective, the somatic cells surrounding the oocyte were sampled in the 4 studied species at the following stages: developmentally incompetent or poorly competent prophase I oocytes (NC1 oocytes), developmentally competent prophase I oocytes (C1 oocytes), and developmentally competent metaphase II oocytes (C2 oocytes).

Since this strain is poorly naturally competent, phage transduction is a commonly used technique to introduce alterations into its genome (see e.g. references [2], [4], [5]).

She reports that the clinicians are partially correct; both metastatically competent and poorly metastatic cell lines arrive at the metastatic site and extravasate at high frequencies.

And students motivated by a desire to avoid performing poorly or appearing less competent than others tend to learn less than students without these concerns (Elliot and McGregor, 2001).

A variety of motivational factors may affect students' abilities to change their ideas in science, including a desire to: learn something for its own sake, earn a good grade, prepare for a certain career, or avoid performing poorly or appearing less competent than others (Glynn et al., 2011).

"There is a misconception in Australia that because the former National Soccer League was poorly run there were no competent football administrators," said Foster.

Indeed, NAF COX-2KD, which, compared to NAF nt, grew poorly as orthotopic tumors in immune competent syngenic mice also produced substantially less PD-L1 protein in response to IFNγ.

Vector competence for RVFV is poorly understood, though it is generally presumed that there exist competent domestic vectors in most regions of the US and EU.

In our Boyden migration assay serum containing media was used as a chemoattractant and PMA was added as a positive control to demonstrate poorly migrating cells were competent for migration.