western blot analysis
western blot analysis is the alternative form of Western blot analysis.
Noun capitalized: Western blot analysis
Western blot analysis (countable and uncountable, plural Western blot analyses)
- A laboratory technique, akin to Southern blot analysis, used to identify antibodies and other proteins.
Forms of western blot analysis
| plural | western blot analyses |
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| plural | Western blot analyses |
| alternative form | western blot analysis |
Origin of western blot analysis
Playful extension from Southern blot analysis, which is eponymous, named after Edwin M. Southern. When other similar techniques were developed soon afterward, they were named Western and Northern in a tongue-in-cheek fashion. The origin from the surname Southern means that all the terms are often capitalised.
Questions about western blot analysis
- What does western blot analysis mean?
- Western blot analysis means a laboratory technique, akin to Southern blot analysis, used to identify antibodies and other proteins.
- What is western blot analysis the alternative form of?
- Western blot analysis is the alternative form of Western blot analysis.
- What part of speech is western blot analysis?
- Western blot analysis is a noun.
- What is the plural of western blot analysis?
- The plural of western blot analysis is western blot analyses.
Words near western blot analysis in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: western blot analysis (page history and authors); Western blot analysis (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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