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[โ€“] [email protected] 34 points 5 months ago (13 children)

What exactly is this? I'm no man of science aha

[โ€“] [email protected] 44 points 5 months ago

I think this basically just tests how heavy chromosomes/DNA-strands are. By that you can see how long they are. The many lines on the side are the reference-ladder.

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The clear lines in the second pic indicate a very clean sample of similar length DNA, while the smears in the first indicate some form of contamination.

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