Berries…with a side of DNA?

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Cell’s Control Center: DNA

What’s the connection to cells?

How does it work?

What is
DNA?
Cellville -
analogous to a cell?

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Cellville City Plan
• Label the city plan for the city of Cellville!

– Identify the primary function of each city structure

– Is there an analogous cell structure for the city

structures? Label the city structures with the
correlating cell structure.
Where can you find cells?
If living things consist of cells and cells have
DNA, then…

Is DNA in our food?

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How do we extract and isolate DNA to test this?
 Getting through the
layers to find DNA

• How do you get through

– Cell wall (plants)
– Cell membrane
– Nuclear membrane

• How do you get the

DNA out of solution?
If living things consist of cells and cells have
DNA, then does our food have DNA in it?

Write a hypothesis, make a prediction!

DNA Extraction Procedures

• What food samples are available?

• What are controls? How might we use

them today?

• Construct the protocol for DNA

extraction.
Making Observations

Carefully note what happens

after each step of the
procedure. Does what you
see make sense with what you
expected to happen based on
the reading?

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Results: Is DNA in food?

• State your claim.

• What is your evidence?

• Defend with your reasoning.