All the colonies look identical but some have taken up the


When cloning a gene using plasmid vectors, the bacterial colonies containing the recombinant plasmids are mixed up with colonies that have none. All the colonies look identical, but some have taken up the plasmids with the human gene, and some have not. Explain how the colonies with the recombinant plasmids are identified.

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