Phytochrome responses can be distinguished by the amount of light required to induce them. The amount of light is referred to as the fluence, which is defined as the number of photons impinging on a unit surface area. 

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Low-percentage acrylamide gels are also used to separate DNA. Gels of between 10 and 20% acrylamide are used in techniques such as SDS–gel electrophoresis, where the smaller pore size now introduces a sieving effect that contributes to the separation of proteins according to their size. 

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Sodium Dodecyl Sulfate (SDS)-Polyacrylamide Gel Electrophoresis is based on the separation of proteins according to size, it can also be used to determine the relative molecular mass of proteins.

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SDS (H3C-(CH2 )10 –CH2 -OSO3 – Na+ ) is an anionic detergent used to create negative on sample  On average, one SDS molecule binds for every two amino-acid residues.

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SDS–PAGE are firstly boiled for 5 min in sample buffer containing - mercaptoethanol or dithiothreitol ( DTT) and SDS. Mercaptoethanol or DTT reduce any disulfide bridges

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In conventional discontinuous gel electrophoresis two type of GEL system is used on top with comb there is a stacking gel with pH 6.8 and below resolving with gel pH 8.8 phenomenon known as isotachophoresis.

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The band-sharpening effect relies on the fact that negatively charged glycinate ions (in the electrophoresis buffer) have a lower electrophoretic mobility than do the protein–SDS complexes, which, in turn, have lower mobility than the chloride ions (Cl − ) of the loading buffer and the stacking gel buffer.