1. Plural of agarose; a polysaccharide extracted from seaweed, used in laboratories as a gel medium for separating molecules in electrophoresis and other analytical techniques.
Usage: technical; scientific

Examples

• The lab technician prepared several agaroses of different concentrations for the DNA analysis.
• Agaroses are commonly used in molecular biology to create gel matrices for protein separation.
• Different agaroses have varying pore sizes, which affects their ability to separate molecules of different sizes.
• The researcher selected high-quality agaroses to ensure accurate results in the electrophoresis experiment.