What techniques that may be employed to separate subcellular components?

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What techniques that may be employed to separate subcellular components?

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centrifugation. First you burst the cell, usually with a hypotonic solution, resulting in cellular contents in the solution. Then, you spin the test tube on a platform. The centrifical? force separates the organelles by sending the heavier particles down and the lighter particles up in the test tube. I hope this is the answer you are looking for.