Suppose you wanted to study genes controlling thestructure of bacterial cell surfaces. You decide tostart by isolating bacterial mutants resistant to infection by a bacteriophage that binds to the cellsurface. The selection procedure is simple: Spreadcells from a culture of sensitive bacteria on a petriplate, expose them to a high concentration ofphages, and pick the bacterial colonies that grow.To set up the selection you could (1) spread cellsfrom a single liquid culture of sensitive bacteria onmany different plates and pick every resistant colony; or (2) start many different cultures, eachgrown from a single colony of sensitive bacteria,spread one plate from each culture, and then pick asingle mutant from each plate. Which methodwould ensure that you are isolating many independent mutations?

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Nutrient Growth Medium

It is a culture medium or nutrient broth for all kinds of microorganisms to grow properly and create their colony. This matrix provides support to increase the population of microbes through the method of cell proliferation. It is regarded as the food material for those organisms. It is a type of in vitro mechanism, in which the development of life is processed outside the host body. It can be solid, semi-solid, or liquid in nature. Different kinds of cells develop in different types of media.