Multiple choice

The dyes used in biomedical imaging belong to

  1. chrysoine resorcinol

  2. xylene cyanol

  3. cyanine

  4. SYBR Green I
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C Correct answer
Explanation

Cyanine is a non-systematic name of a synthetic dye family belonging to polymethine group. Cyanines have many uses as fluorescent dyes, particularly in biomedical imaging. Depending on the structure, they cover the spectrum from IR to UV.

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