After your experiment, you proudly show your lab partner your agar plate with hu
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Question
After your experiment, you proudly show your lab partner your agar plate with hundreds of colonies displaying the appropriate characteristics for the transformation you performed. she tells you that the colonies you see are likely due to a spontaneous mutation, and not due to the transformation. which of the following will not be a viable retort to your lab partner's hypothesis?
a) it is very unlike that spontaneous mutation events would lead to the same mutation in a variety of organisms.
b) spontaneous mutation is much too rare for hundreds of colonies to display this new characteristics.
c) spontaneous mutation do not occur unless there is a mutagen present. this agar did not contain mutagens
d) it is not possible that spontaneous mutation in just one generation would lead to the acquisition of an entire general
Explanation / Answer
b) spontaneous mutation is much too rare for hundreds of colonies to display this new characteristics.
Spontaneous mutation arises generally in 1 individual within 100,000 individual. Thus it is very unlikely that the spontaneous mutation to be cause for the colony growth.