Smeared

... instrument. I am expecting a product that is ~750bp. The PCR product will most frequently show short products, most of the time they appear as a smeared band from ~50bp-400bp, rather than a discrete band at a specific length. Do primer dimers usually occure as smears? I have tried adding DMSO, ...

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... this diagnostic method. Typically, fluid from the area suspected of being infected is obtained from the patient suspected to have an infection and smeared on what is called a petrie dish. And then these dishes are incubated for 2 to 3 days. Gram positive bacteria stain during this process a dark ...

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... counts - the dilution factor is the parameter of significance. You should be using 0.1 ml. 1 ml is alot to go on a plate, will often give you smeared colonies and any spreaders are going to make it uncountable.

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... one of my friends was sick. his fingers and legs were stiff and he nearly fainted in class. My teachers came, one of them took the alcohol and smeared it to all over his body and this thing aroused my curiosity. My question is, does it work, how does it work or what's the effect by smearing ...

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... difference between good quality RNA preps (those with clear bands for 18S and 28S rRNA) and poor quality preps (no such bands and everything is smeared out with a number average size at or near the front of the chromatogram.) This “flourescent ruler” you refer to couldn’t possibly be RiboRuler™ ...

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