1. Two strains of E. coli, A and B, are inoculated into a chemostat in equal frequencies and undergo competition. After 10 generations, the frequency of the B strain is 75%.
(a) What is the fitness of strain B relative to strain A (under these particular experimental conditions)? __________
(b) What is the selection coefficient against strain A? __________ (Hint: Rescale so that the fitness of strain B equals one.)
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