The picture above shows a typical gel electrophoresis set up. The clear container in the center of the picture is called a gel electrophoresis chamber. It contains the agarose gel that will be loaded with genetic material‚ as well as a buffer solution. It is connected to a DC power supply via electrodes. This picture was taken at Paw Print Genetics laboratory in Spokane‚ Washington. Viney and Fenton (1998) defined the term electrophoresis as‚ “the migration of charged particles through a static medium
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Bernardine Date Due: 02/08/2013 PURISIMA‚ Dio Mark Angelo Date Submitted: 02/08/2013 Experiment No. 9 AGAROSE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS OF DNA Abstract _____________________________________________________________________________ Agarose is a polymeric cross-linked polysaccharide extracted from the seaweed agar. Agarose is used widely in gel electrophoresis because it gels at a lower temperature‚ does not contain the inhibitors of virus growth frequently present in agar‚ and has more uniform
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CHARACTERIZATION BY ELECTROPHORESIS Abstract The molecular weights of protein extracts were assessed by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE). Two sets of four protein samples‚ standard bovine serum albumin (BSA)‚ invertase‚ egg albumin‚ and casein‚ were prepared; one set containing β-mercaptoethanol (BME) while the other did not. These were then analyzed through SDS-PAGE with 12.5% resolving gel‚ prepared using 2 M Tris-HCl at pH 8.8 and stacking gel‚ prepared using
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Gel Electrophoresis Adventure Intro The final goal of this lab was to successfully measure the size of different samples of DNA by placing each sample into a well in agarose gel and running a current through a charged chamber. The DNA samples will move through the gel towards the positive charge. Ideally‚ the DNA will move and create and sequence of smallest to largest. This lab exposes us to DNA technology. Backround Gel electrophoresis is used to separate macromolecules like DNA or RNA by size or
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Title: Principles and Practice of Agarose Gel Electrophorsis Objectives: To detect the size ‚ shape and charge of the each dye solution. Methods: Casting the Agarose Gel In this experiment .8% solution was used. By using a 250ml flask the buffer solution was prepared. Using the equation to make enough solution for the intire lab class the equation had to be multiplyed by five. The contents of this equation were added to the 250ml flask and swirled to evenly distrubute it contents
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Quantitative Analysis of a Soluble Sulfate Steven English Lab Instructor: Dr. Campo Date: Tuesday‚ February 5th 2013 Pre-Lab Questions A. Adding the acid to the sodium sulfate solution results in an increase in the solubility of any free anions present in the sample. This will happen because the present anions will bind with the hydrogen cations present in the acid. B. The sodium sulfate is boiled because experiments have shown that barium sulfate is 50 times more soluble at 100°C
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Use of SDS-PAGE/Western Blot Techniques as Diagnostic Tools for Equine Medical Conditions SDS-PAGE Overview Electrophoresis is commonly used to separate proteins using an applied electrical field. SDS-PAGE separates proteins by molecular weight‚ using sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS; also known as lauryl sulfate) to denature them and a discontinuous polyacrylamide gel as a sieving matrix. The net charges of folded proteins are not dependent upon molecular weight. Rather‚ charge is determined by
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this goal by creating five reactions containing Sodium Sulfate that would confirm our compound and show its chemical properties. In each reaction‚ we replaced the presence of Sodium Sulfate with our unknown. Our first reaction was the reaction from the sulfate anion test between Sodium Sulfate and Barium Chloride. If the compound was in fact Sodium Sulfate it would produce a white precipitate and it did. The second reaction was first between Sodium Sulfate and Hydrochloric Acid‚ and then Silver Nitrate
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What is gel electrophoresis? Gel electrophoresis is a technique that separates pieces of DNA (or other biological molecules) by size. Pieces of DNA in a test tube all look the same. DNA Gel Electrophoresis Gel electrophoresis separates pieces of DNA by size so that researchers can further analyze them BURST Training Session November 29‚ 2005 Once the DNA samples are loaded onto the gel‚ an electric current is applied to the gel. DNA is negatively charged due to all the phosphate groups in the
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SODIUM gSodium is a chemical element with the symbol Na (from Latin: natrium) and atomic number 11. It is a soft‚ silver-white‚ highly reactive metal and is a member of the alkali metals; its only stable isotope is 23Na. The free metal does not occur in nature‚ but instead must be prepared from its compounds; it was first isolated by Humphry Davy in 1807 by the electrolysis of sodium hydroxide. Sodium is the sixth most abundant element in the Earth’s crust‚ and exists in numerous minerals such
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