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PEG (polyethylene glycol) is a crowding agent, while isolating plasmid with the traditional common method if use PEG in the last step this increases the concentration of DNA i.e. it removes different ions and impurities from the DNA and make DNA more pure and concentrated. Generally we use PEG solution made up in NaCl or commercially available PEG-8000 NaCl.

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Polyethylene glycol (PEG) is often used in transformation to increase the permeability of cell membranes by destabilizing the lipid bilayer. This allows foreign DNA to enter the cells more easily. PEG treatment is commonly used in protoplast fusion and some methods of DNA uptake in plant cells.

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