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DNA EXTRACTION
MATERIALS
Fruit (strawberry or blueberries) Rubbing alcohol
Warm water Coffee filter
Salt Cup or glass jar
Concentrated dish soap Plastic bag for squishing fruit (optional)
OBSERVATIONS
Make notes about what you saw and did! What type of fruit(s) did
you use? Did you see DNA float up into the rubbing alcohol layer?
Rock
Phone Egg Magnet Goldfish
N COLOR THE
N PYRIMIDINES
P BLUE. THEY ARE A
N N HEXAGON WITH
Adenine pairs
N TWO NITROGENS
N IN THEIR RING.
N
with Thymine
N
P
P N
N N
N
N Guanine pairs
N N
with Cytosine
N P
N
P
Thymine pairs
N N
N N
N with Adenine
N P
N
P
N
N N Cytosine pairs
with Guanine
N
N N
P
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THINKING QUESTION
1. Isoamyl acetate, sometimes
popularly called “banana oil” is
one of the compounds responsible ISOAMYL ALCOHOL ACETIC ACID ISOAMYL ACETATE
for banana avor. If an enzyme
called “bananase” makes Isoamyl Why does the
acetate from isoamyl alcohol, entire science lab Because I made
could you make a strawberry taste smell like banana isoamyl acetate!
laffy taffy?!?!
like a banana by putting the DNA
segment for the enzyme
“bananase” into a strawberry?
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