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 | | The master plate would not have a small number of resolved macrocolonies but a large number of unresolved microcolonies, among which there would be only a small number of resistant clones. |
 | | My final comment, unrelated to the foregoing, is that the replica plating example demonstrates another major theme of the chapter; namely that any hypothesis is continually at risk of falsification by subsequent testing. |
 | | I wish to emphasize that, although the pre-adaptation vs. directed mutation controversy had been considered settled for decades, and even though the fluctuation and replica plating tests were considered classics by the canonical texts, that bacterial geneticists were, for the most part, willing to accept that the question needed re-examination. |
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