Yes I think it’s right because it’s saying that it doesn’t get old and it feels like it was just written.
<span>Selective media are used for the growth of only selected microorganisms. For example, if a microorganism is resistant to a certain antibiotic, such as ampicillin or tetracycline, then that antibiotic can be added to the medium in order to prevent other cells, which do not possess the resistance, from growing. Media lacking an amino acid such as proline in conjunction with E. coli unable to synthesize it were commonly used by geneticists before the emergence of genomics to map bacterial chromosomes.</span>
I'm going to say B because there is various ways to determine the meaning of a word you do not know