Electrophoresis Flashcards

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1
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What is electrophoresis?

A

using electricity to separate DNA fragments by length

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2
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What is the charge of DNA?

A

negatively charged

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3
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What do you attach to the DNA fragments?

A

a fluorescent label or stain DNA

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4
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What do you put DNA fragments into?

A

the well at negative end

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5
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What do you turn on?

A

current

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6
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What are the DNA fragments attracted to?

A

positive electrode

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7
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What moves faster?

A

small fragments

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8
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What will look the same?

A

all of the DNA fragments no matter how many there are

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9
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What will look the same?

A

all of the DNA fragments no matter how many there are

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10
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If there are 2 cuts made, how many DNA fragments are there?

A

3

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11
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What do you calibrate the scale by?

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using pieces of DNA of known length

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