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Glucose is added to increase the osmotic pressure outside the cells. Tris is a buffering agent used to maintain a constant pH ( = 8.0). EDTA protects the DNA from degradative enzymes (called DNAses); EDTA binds divalent cations that are necessary for DNAse activity.

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