Biochemical Techniques

noun the measurement of the spectrum of light emitted or absorbed by a substance

• The scientist used mass spectrometry to analyze the chemical composition of the sample.
• They're running some sort of spectrometry test on the substance.
• I heard they're doing some fancy spectrometry stuff in the lab.
• Her ability to read people's emotions was like a form of emotional spectrometry.

noun a polysaccharide obtained from seaweed, used especially in gel electrophoresis

• Agarose gel electrophoresis is commonly used in molecular biology to separate DNA fragments based on size.
• I need to run the DNA samples on an agarose gel to see the band patterns.
• Let's load the agarose gel with the DNA samples and run the electrophoresis.
• The agarose gel acted like a sieve, separating the DNA fragments into distinct bands.