Question

Radioisotopes and biological applications

Answer 1

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Radioisotopes are widely used for a number of purposes following are some major applications of radioisotope. Biochemical assays are used to detect the presence and absence of radioisotopes. Therefore radioactive isotopes are used to label biological molecules. ... This technique is called radioimmuno-assays.

Answer 2

Metabolic Pathways:

Radioisotopes are frequently used for tracing metabolic pathways. This usually involves adding a radioactive substrate, taking samples of the experimental material at various times, extracting and chromatographically or otherwise separating the products.