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Principles Of Inheritance And Variation

Question
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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

  • only on plates with streptomycin

  • on plates with minimal medium

  • only on plates without streptomycin

  • on plates with and without streptomycin

Solution

A.

only on plates with streptomycin

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