Question

ame: 79. GENETICS BIOL 3440 Ethidium bromide a. terminates the formation of polynucleotide chains. b. is used to detect a protein of interest. c. is a nonspecific stain for nucleic acids. d. is a nonspecific nuclease.

Answer 1

Ethidium bromide is an intercalating agent and widely used to visualize the DNA fragment in agarose electrophoresis. The EtBr intercalates between the DNA base pairs and fluorescence red-orange color at 560nm when observed under UV illumination

C- It is a non-specific stain for nucleic acid = correct