Physicochemical technique for measuring the complexity (or size) of DNA. The DNA is heated to make it single stranded, then allowed to cool. The renaturation of the DNA is followed spectroscopically: larger DNA molecules take longer to reanneal.
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Physicochemical technique for measuring the complexity (or size) of DNA. The DNA is heated to make it single stranded, then allowed to cool. The renaturation of the DNA is followed spectroscopically: larger DNA molecules take longer to reanneal.