The fluctuation test performed by Luria and Delbruck isconsistent with the random mutation hypothesis.
Complete a brief outline of their experiment.
Rank the steps of the experiment from the first to the last.
1. they split the culture into smaller cultures.
2. they took a large culture of a bacterial strain susceptibleto infection by a bacteriophage.
3. they determined how many colonies grew on each plate.
4. they plated samples containing equal numbers of bacteria fromthe cultures on petri plates containing the bacteriophage.
5. they allowed the cultures to double for multiplegenerations.
