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Astronaut conducting an electrophoresis experiment aboard the space shuttle Columbia. Fluorescent bands of DNA separated by size appear as horizontal yellow-green lines on a blue gel, showing results of DNA fingerprinting. In gel electrophoresis an electric field is applied to a buffer solution covering an agarose gel, which has slots at one end containing DNA samples. The negatively charged DNA molecules travel through the gel toward a positive electrode and are separated based on size as they advance.
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Astronaut conducting an electrophoresis experiment aboard the space shuttle Columbia.
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In DNA fingerprinting, fragments of DNA are separated on a gel using a technique...
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In gel electrophoresis an electric field is applied to a buffer solution covering...
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