Question

What is the expected outcome if DNA from an ampicillin resistant organism is incorporated into an ampicillin sensitive organism by transformation and then the resulting organisms are allowed to reproduce on agar containing ampicillin?

Answer 1

Only transformed cells will grow on agar containing ampicillin.

Explanation:

If the DNA from an ampicillin-resistant organism is incorporated into an ampicillin sensitive organism then the transformed ampicillin sensitive organism will get ampicillin resistant gene.

So when this transformed organism will allow growing on the agar containing ampicillin then this transformed organism will easily grow and reproduce on agar containing ampicillin because now it has an ampicillin-resistant gene which will protect it from ampicillin antibiotic. So the transformed cell will grow on agar containing ampicillin.