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In molecular biology experiments, to label a sample of DNA is a way of tagging the molecules of DNA so that they can be visualised. It is usually done by replacing nucleotides in the DNA or RNA molecule by ones that contains a radioactive isotope or a fluorescent molecule.

View Dr Chromo's lecture on 'Hybridization of DNA'.


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