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Can someone summarize the technique of gel electrophoresis in one or two sentences?

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There is a gel (agarose) that is placed in abuffer-filled box and an electrical field is applied via a power supply. The negative terminal is at the far end (black wire), this causes DNA migrates toward the anode (red wire).
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