Methods library · Genes and genomes

Fluctuation test and replica plating

Also called Luria-Delbruck

Showing that mutations arise before selection from the jackpot-shaped spread of mutant counts across cultures.

Watch Mutation Comes Before Selection · 2:53

A schematic drawn in code, narrated by an AI narrator voice (Gemini, Charon) reading narration written from the lesson's text. First made for the lesson Mutation: Where Variation Comes From.

Where it is taught

One lesson uses this method.