Biotechnology Methods

adjective describing a quality of being able to separate or divide things

• The separative membrane allowed for the filtration of particles based on size.
• The separative wall in the house divides the living room and the kitchen.
• I heard they're putting up a separative fence between the properties.
• The separative mindset of the group led to division and conflict within the community.

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.