Blue/white screening cake

My birthday cake from last year should be recognizable to this year’s biotech students.  In which bacterial colonies has the alpha fragment of the beta-galactosidase gene been interupted with a DNA insert?  What is the name of beta-galactosidase substrate added to the agar medium?

Blue-white screening

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