A nutritionally defective E. coli strain grows only on a medium containing thymine, whereas another nutritionally defective
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A nutritionally defective E. coli strain grows only on a medium containing thymine, whereas another nutritionally defective strain grows only on a medium containing leucine. When these two strains were grown together, a few progeny were able to grow on a minimal medium with neither thymine nor leucine. How can this result be explained?
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