Imagine you create an E. coli mutant in which you replace th…
Imagine you create an E. coli mutant in which you replace the lacY gene of the lac operon that codes for the lac permease with a green fluorescent protein (GFP) reporter gene. GFP fluoresces green upon exposure to UV light. You inoculate your mutant into a glucose salts broth with added lactose and measure its growth with a spectrophotometer, and you occasionally shine a low level (not harmful to growth) UV light on your culture. You would expect your culture to ______.