What Is One Reason That Polyacrylamide Gels Have Higher Resolution

question 16

Multiple Choice

What is one reason that polyacrylamide gels have higher resolution than agarose gels for small fragments?

• A) Agarose polymer spaces are bigger than those of polyacrylamide.
• B) Agarose polymers are very fragile.
• C) Agarose won't separate molecules over a certain size.
• D) Agarose is a synthetic polymer in which sieving properties can be precisely controlled.

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Normally Distributed

A type of continuous probability distribution for a real-valued random variable, characterized by a symmetric bell-shaped curve.

Standard Deviation

A measure of the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of values, indicating how much the individual values deviate from the mean.

Standard Deviation

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