Concatemer can occur due to replication. Dimers are usually doubling in size when compared to monomers. Gel Electrophoresis Examples for Plasmid Forms. Lane 1: DNA Ladder.
Lane 2: Undigested plasmid A. Lane 3: Completely digested plasmid A. Now, as a practice, can you guess each plasmid form from these bands from the agarose gel below? Gel Electrophoresis. For Lane 2, you may be able to see two bands. The next step is to identify those bands to figure out which one to cut. Lane 5: PCR Product with a faint primer dimer band. Lane 6: Genomic DNA. The white arrows indicate the bands that you want to excise.
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How to Interpret Gel Electrophoresis Results If possible, load undigested, linearized, and UV radiated plasmids next to each other into the agarose gel, then you can compare the bands between those samples. The whole basis by which the human genome was done is by something called capillary electrophoresis, by separating DNA into shorter pieces and then running them on these electrophoresis gels which allow the patterns of As, Cs, Ts, and Gs to be elucidated.
They're also very important in protein research, and then genetic mutation research, because when proteins or DNA are mutated, they are frequently longer or shorter, and they therefore show up on an electrophoresis gel differently than normal, so many diagnostic tests are still done using electrophoresis, so it's a very widely used basic research technique, was very important for the understanding of gene and protein function, but it's now gotten into the area of clinical diagnostics and forensics as well.
Electrophoresis is usually done in what looks like a box which has a positive charge at one end and a negative charge at the other. And as we all learned in basic physics, when you put a charged molecule into an environment like that, the negative molecules go to the positive charge, and vice versa.
In looking at proteins in a gel, in one of these boxes, you usually take the entire protein, and you're looking at the entire length of the protein and seeing how big it is, and the bigger it is, the shorter it will migrate into the gel, so that the small proteins will end up at the bottom of the gel, because they have migrated the farthest, and the biggest ones will wind up staying at the top. It's just so big that it would never get into the gel, so what scientists do, and what people do in classrooms these days, is to chop up that DNA using things like inscription enzymes, which chop up the DNA into more manageable pieces in a reproducible way.
Finally, after the DNA, RNA, or protein molecules have been separated using gel electrophoresis, bands representing molecules of different sizes can be detected. Related Concepts You have authorized LearnCasting of your reading list in Scitable.
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