Ethidium Bromide

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Ethidium Bromide, commonly used during gel electrophoresis in molecular biology labs, is a fluorescent tag which intercalates with double-stranded DNA and RNA (due to it's tendancy to fold back on itself and create localised sections of Watson-Crick interaction, and emits an orange glow when under UV light.