Ethidium bromide

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Food Biotechnology

A fluorescent dye used to stain DNA and RNA. The dye fluoresces when exposed to UV light.

Susan Allender-Hagedorn and Charles Hagedorn — An Agricultural and Environmental Biotechnology Annotated Dictionary

A fluorescent dye which can intercalate between base pairs of double-stranded DNA, and hence is much used to stain DNA in gels. The dye fluoresces when exposed to UV light. It is a known to be a strong mutagen and is also possibly both a carcinogen and a teratogen.

UN Food and Agriculture Organization — Glossary of Biotechnology for Food and Agriculture