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Thank you We sneak in Molecular genetics Electro for e

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says a lot Okay we're on dna technology with dr

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ruth tenant so the dna then has to be sort

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of separated or segmented and managed in various ways Talk

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us through the process and you know bass in the

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process of electrophoresis How does all that kind of come

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together Yeah so let her freeze is really useful tool

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It is basically a way of separating dna by size

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using an electric field so you load you add your

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dna into an aggro gel which kind of feels like

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god If you zoom in really close on it looks

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like a spider web so it's all like tons of

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running all over what you do is you at an

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electric field that is negative where you put the dna

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and positive at the other end and the dna which

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is negatively charged What kind of run down gel toward

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the positive is exactly like that Yep And a smaller

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piece of dna the faster it's gonna be able to

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make it through that web cool it separate things And

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we've done this after we've chopped it up with restriction

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enzymes no and then we study the patterns a little

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bit like you you know collide adams You'll look at

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how they smash together and i'll give you characteristics of

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the medium in san And someone is that it was

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sort of looking at the the trail of a corpse

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of you know sort of what what's happened in this

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collision Yes So there's a bunch of different uses So

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once you got those pieces separated one thing you do

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is actually cut them out of the jail and used

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them for other purposes But you could use them for

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forensic So you could have a pattern of dna from

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a suspect and a pattern of dna from the scene

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And you could compare what they look like what the

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fingerprints look like Wow Cool So we cut him out

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of the spider web gel and we want to use

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him for something else Is this you know i think

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i remember reading google article about our being able to

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we try to grow frog and grow the whole frog

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We grew an arm like is it where you can

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cut them out and grow cool stuff And or you

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know cases It's not super dramatic So you might have

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a gene that controls some small thing that you could

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put into a new organism And it could give it

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a new traits For example like you could have a

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plant that normally is you know not resistant to us

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or insect And then you look into it And now 00:02:16.513 --> [endTime] it is What's the process of electro for recess

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