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Spectrophotometer

Spectrophotometer

instrument used to determine the intensity of light of a wavelength transmitted by a solution. Provides measuring the amount of material in the solution.


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Calculating DNA concentration in PCR product

simply by using uv spectrophotometer you can estimate the concentration of dna after pcr amplification

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by shahensha
Sun May 03, 2009 6:26 am
 
Forum: Molecular Biology
Topic: Calculating DNA concentration in PCR product
Replies: 6
Views: 1698

Re: A question pertaining on testing amylase

... either method semi-quantitatively just by eye. If you are going to do it quantitatively, it would help to have access to either a colorimeter or spectrophotometer. Here is one way that does takes both approaches semi-quantitatively: http://www.biotopics.co.uk/nutrition/amylex.html There are a ...

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by blcr11
Tue Jan 06, 2009 2:25 pm
 
Forum: Molecular Biology
Topic: A question pertaining on testing amylase
Replies: 2
Views: 520

Citrate synthase stock calculation

... a calculations based question, that i am having trouble with. the problem is i am trying to do a CS thermal aggregation assay on a fluorescence spectrophotometer and i cant seem to get the same light scattering units (not as high) as previous papers have so i presume my CS concentration is wrong.please ...

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by proteinz
Tue Oct 07, 2008 10:37 am
 
Forum: Molecular Biology
Topic: Citrate synthase stock calculation
Replies: 1
Views: 474

RAPD and viruses

... gel - gel is empty). Our primers: Pentamers: AATGC, CCTGA, GGTCA, AAGCC, TGACT Hexamers: AATGCA, TGCAAT, ATATGC, ATCATG We checked them using spectrophotometer – overything is OK. Finally, we use 2 ul of primer (2 x 100 pmol) according to article we found about doing PCR with hexamers (they ...

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by AdamAdam
Sat Aug 16, 2008 11:40 am
 
Forum: Molecular Biology
Topic: RAPD and viruses
Replies: 0
Views: 959

Porblems making DIG probe - please help

... This is probably why you cannot see them in an EtBr gel. If you really think that you might not have any nucleotides in there, you could use a spectrophotometer to check the concentration. You need to run a special gel for mRNA. It needs to be a denaturing (formaldehyde) gel and it needs to ...

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by snowcapk
Sat Aug 02, 2008 1:59 am
 
Forum: Molecular Biology
Topic: Porblems making DIG probe - please help
Replies: 5
Views: 980
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