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Imagine That Exposure to the Antibiotic Streptomycin Promotes Mutations Causing

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Imagine that exposure to the antibiotic streptomycin promotes mutations causing streptomycin resistance in E.coli.If you repeated Luria and Delbruck's test using streptomycin instead of the T1 phage,what results would you expect?


A) None of the 20 individual cultures would show any streptomycin-resistant colonies.
B) The 20 individual cultures would show a high variation in the number of streptomycin-resistant colonies.
C) The 20 individual cultures would show a high variation in the size of streptomycin-resistant colonies.
D) The 20 individual cultures would show comparable numbers of streptomycin-resistant colonies.
E) The 20 individual cultures would show streptomycin-resistant colonies of unusually large size.

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