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Using imprints from a plate with complete medium and carrying bacterial colonies, you can select streptomycin resistant mutants and prove that such mutations do not originate as adaptation. These imprints need to be used

Options

  1. Aonly on plates with streptomycin
  2. Bon plates with minimal medium
  3. Conly on plates without streptomycin
  4. Don plates with and without streptomycin

Correct answer

A. only on plates with streptomycin

Step-by-step solution

Plates having streptomycin allow to propagate only those bacteria, which are resistant to the antibiotic.

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