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The Why of Salt

Thank you for all of this! The why for the salt mentioned above is to shield the negative charges so the DNA will precipitate. I have been telling my students that the salt in the buffer is to break down the Proteins that the DNA winds around (histones). Am I passing on a misconception?

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