What is a Plate boundary where plates slide past one another?

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a transform boundary

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Description : Using imprints from a plate with complete medium and carrying bacterial colonies, you can select streptomycin resistant mutants and prove that such mutations do not originate as adaptation. These ... minimal medium (c) only on plates with streptomycin (d) only on plates without streptomycin.

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Description : Five volts are applied across the plates of a parallel plate capacitor. The distance of separation of the plates is .02 meters. What is the magnitude of the electric field inside the capacitor?

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