Sephadex G-75 has an exclusion limit of 80,000 molecular weight for globular proteins. If you tried to use this column material to separate alcohol dehydrogenase (MW 150,000) from β-amylase (MW 200,000), what would happen?

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Sephadex G-75 has an exclusion limit of 80,000 molecular weight for globular proteins. If you tried to use this column material to separate alcohol dehydrogenase (MW 150,000) from β-amylase (MW 200,000), what would happen?

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