One of your classmates is still unsure as to how transformation works. so, he performs the following experiment: - a competent e. coli culture is tranformed with dna coding for penicillnase ( and enzyme that degrades the antibiotic penicillin) . - a different sample of the same strain of e. coli is also transformed with dna coding for penicillinase. in this case, though , a small amount of penicillin ( the antibiotic) is also added to the reaction tube during the transformation process. what results would you expect?
a) neither organism would be transformed because you cannot put a gene for antibiotic resistance into a prokaryote
b) the tube without penicillin would have many more transformed organisms
c) the two tubes would produce very similar results
d) the tube with penicillin would have significantly fewer transformed organisms