Western blotting is the technique for the detection of specific ______ in the sample.
A
protein
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B
RNA
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C
DNA
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D
glycolipid
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Solution
The correct option is A protein Western blotting (also known as immunoblotting or protein blotting) is a method used for the detection of electrophoretically separated proteins. It was termed 'western blotting' because of its analogy to Southern (DNA detection) and Northern (RNA detection) blotting.