Biotechnology: Principle and ProcessHard
Question
Agarose extracted from sea weeds finds use in
Options
A.tissue culture
B.PCR
C.gel electrophoresis
D.spectrophotometry
Solution
Gel electrophoresis is a technique to separate fragment of DNA. Since DNA fragment arenegatively charged molecules the can be separated by forcing them to move towards theanode under an electric field through a medium/matrix. Now-a-days the most commonlyused matrix is agarose which is a natural polymer extracted from seaweed (e.g., Gelidium,Gracilaria etc).
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