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Published on: August 13, 2026
Having become an expert on gel electro-phoresis, you are asked to examine a gel for a colleague. Where would you find the smallest segments of DNA?
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DNA is negatively charged and moves toward the positive electrode (anode) during gel electrophoresis. Smaller DNA fragments move faster and travel farther from the wells.
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