You observe a microbiologist examining two plates and notice the pattern of colonies are nearly identical with the exception of a few colonies that are absent on one of them. The plates likely were produced by

A) positive selection culturing.
B) replica plating.
C) pour plating.
D) streak plating.
E) the Ames test.


B

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