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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A technique for identifying specific sequences of DNA in which DNA fragments are separated by electrophoresis, transferred to nitrocellulose, and identified with a suitable probe.
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- noun biochemistry a
technique wherebybiological molecules (especiallyDNA fragments ) areseparated byelectrophoresis and thentransferred from agel to animmobilizing medium , under theinfluence of anelectric field , for analysis
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[After Edwin Mallor Southern, (born 1938), British biochemist.]
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From Edwin Mallor Southern, British biochemist
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