In a molecular biology laboratory, a student obtained competent E. coli cells and used a common transformation procedure to induce the uptake of plasmid DNA with a gene for resistance to the antibiotic kanamycin. The results above were obtained.

Which of the plates is used as a control to show that nontransformed E. coli will not grow in the presence of kanamycin?

a. Plate I
b. Plate II
c. Plate III
d. Plate IV

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