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a. Does putting the yeast on salt cause the beneficial mutation? Why or why not?
b. If you screened your mutagenized yeast cell population on caffeine (another substance that normally kills them), could you find caffeine tolerant ones? (assume there is the potential for genetic resistance to caffeine).
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