PCR primer question?
I assume insulin is the negative control. There is an insulin band in all the columns but what is it for?
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If you didn’t use a ladder in the gel, then the insulin bands could be used as molecular weight markers.
Ovalbumin is a protease inhibitor (prevents catabolism or breakdown of proteins), while insulin regulates anabolism, and consequently carbohydrate breakdown. So they kind of regulate opposite reactions. . .
Did you extract the DNA yourself? Maybe you had to use both in order to show that your extraction methods were reliable.
Did you manipulate the organism/sample/cell before you extracted DNA? Maybe there’s a pathway that would involve both insulin and ovalbumin, where insulin came first, and you needed to show that the lack of insulin was not a factor in the lack/presence of ovalbumin.
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