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Explain the process of gel-electrophoresis technique.

• Separation of DNA fragments under an electric filed in agarose gel.


• Negatively changed DNA moves towards the anode and smaller fragments move farther away.


• The separated DNA fragments are stained with ethidium bromide followed by UV radiations for the visualization purpose.


• DNA bands are then eluted out.



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