Caption by Maclyn McCarty reads: "One of the experiments carried out by Harriet Taylor (and written in her hand) showing that pneumococci that reach the competent state in the absence of transforming DNA will take up added DNA in as short a period as 5 minutes. She later found that the competent state would persist for some days at refrigerator temperature (2 to 4 degrees C)."
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