If You Allowed 10 Identical Parallel Salmonella Cultures to Evolve

question 6

Multiple Choice

If you allowed 10 identical parallel Salmonella cultures to evolve for 10,000 generations under new growth conditions with very little nitrogen, the parallel cultures would

• A) evolve identical adaptations to use the nitrogen source provided in the media.
• B) not change or adapt very much over this small number of generations.
• C) each accumulate different random mutations resulting in different adaptations to use the nitrogen in the media.
• D) direct mutations to occur in nitrogen utilization and uptake genes in order to adapt rapidly to the culture conditions.

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