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Given 200ul of a 0.5mg/ml stock solution of BSA, how much do you pipet into a test tube so that you are adding 5ug of BSA to the test tube

Sagot :

Answer: [tex]10\mu L[/tex] of volume needs to be pipetted out in the test tube.

Explanation:

We are given:

Mass of BSA to be formed = [tex]5\mu g=0.005mg[/tex]      (Conversion factor: [tex]1mg=1000\mu g[/tex]

Volume of stock solution = [tex]200\mu L=0.2mL[/tex]    (Conversion factor: [tex]1mL=1000\mu L[/tex]

It is also given that for the mass of BSA is 0.5 g, the volume used up is 1 mL

In order to have, 0.005 g, the volume of stock solution needed will be = [tex]\frac{1mL}{0.5g}\times 0.005g=0.01mL=10\mu L[/tex]

Hence, [tex]10\mu L[/tex] of volume needs to be pipetted out in the test tube.