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Discuss Concepts As a control for their experiments with bacterial recombination, Lederberg and Tatum placed cells of either “parental” strain 1 or 2 on the surface of a minimal medium. If you set up this control and a few scattered colonies showed up, what might you propose as an explanation? How could you test your explanation?
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