Two bands in the PCR products?

10 October 2019 1 3K Report

I ran a gel with 16S PCR products, in two samples I have 2 bands instead of one. Any ideas on what can be happening?

Dear Claudia Hoepfner ,

It will be helpful if you provide more details from your reaction mix, pcr perimeter, gel concentration and a picture of your gel. Then from there, we can troubleshoot.

-Andrew

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