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Learning goals
Learning goals
You should be able to
describe how agarose gels work
determine the size of a DNA band on an agarose gel
Video: How gel electrophoresis works
Video: How gel electrophoresis works
Watch this video to learn how gel electrophoresis works.
This is a good, but long (15 min) video.
Note: they talk about the specific project they are doing, where they used a restriction enzyme to cut their DNA after PCR. We won't be doing that. Our goal is just to see if the PCR reaction worked and amplified DNA.
Video: Gel electrophoresis
Video: Gel electrophoresis
Watch this for a shorter explanation of how gel electrophoresis works.
Interactive: Gel electrophoresis
Interactive: Gel electrophoresis
Work through this interactive to learn how gel electrophoresis works
Reading: How agarose gels work
Reading: How agarose gels work
Read this description of the components of your agarose gel and what they do
Assignment: How agarose gels work
Assignment: How agarose gels work
Answer these questions to make sure you understand how agarose gels work
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