FILL IN THE BLANK. See Figure below to guide your answers. You are in your third

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FILL IN THE BLANK. See Figure below to guide your answers. You are in your third year of medical school (Imagine self in cool clinician garb following Dr. House around a hospital). He tasks you with identifying if sample X is the carcinogen. Given the patients current state, this unknown is highly mutagenic. Quickly you gather some sample (through unscrupulous means) and run back to lab to perform a(n) _________ test. You make two separate dilutions of the mutagen: 1: 10 and 1: 100. Your control plate, which contains no sample, has _________ colonies. Sample 1, contains 100% of the unknown, has _________ colonies, while the 1: 10 has ____________ and 1: 100 has _________ colonies. This test strongly suggests that sample X is the carcinogen responsible: you run back to find Dr. House. AMIS AMES ELISA PCR ZERO A FEW SOME MORE MOST

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Answer: AMES, MOST, SOME, A FEW

Explanation: Ames test is a biological assay which employs bacteria to test the mutagenic potential of a chemical. A positive Ames test indicates that the given chemical is potentially carcinogenic.

Dilution reduces bacterial concentration.

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