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Originally Posted by willravel
merleniau brings up the valid point that it would be very easy to make your own. If you're worried about the men in black, just make your own gels. I'm sure you can get basic kits from science class suppliers.
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We ran gels through electrophoresis in high school, even. I think the only thing you might not find cheaply is a good centrifuge. I think we used the little squeezy pipets in high school and they came out fine.. molgen, on the other hand, was a lot more precise since we were doing "real" experiments.
The pattern you'll get depends on what enzyme you use to cut the DNA. I would assume that you can get different restriction enzymes to create different patterns.
It was also kind of a pain in the ass to isolate mitochondrial DNA in molgen. Involved ice baths, warm water baths, all kinds of stuff.. I think the kits we used in high school were pre-packaged DNA that just needed to be cut with an enzyme and put in the wells in a gel to run against a ladder.