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When testing an organism for the ability to deaminate phenylalanine, would you expect to overlay this medium with mineral oil? why or why not?

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No, for the reason that, agar will not evaporate when it is in a solid state. Agar is a combination of two components, namely, the agaropectin, which is a heterogeneous combination of tinier molecules and another called the linear polysaccharide agarose.

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