ShmoopTube

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Here’s your Shmoop du jour, brought to you by blue bands,

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and no, we’re not talking about Rumours-era Fleetwood Mac…

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but just try listening to “Silver Springs” without bawling your eyes out.

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Here’s a passage about a technique used to separate proteins.

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How many proteins are present in sample 1? And here are the potential answers…

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This question seems straightforward enough—it looks like we’re being asked to interpret

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data and show that we know how to read the chart.

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Remember in the passage where it said the control contains 5 proteins?

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Well, looking at the figure, we can see that the control is the first column,

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and that column contains 5 blue bands.

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From this we can pretty well assume that blue bands are proteins.

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As for the question, how many proteins are in sample 1, let’s just look and see.

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Just one. A single, lone protein. All by itself.

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Just like when Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham broke up.

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Then again, they made their best music around that time.

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So option A it is!

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