Tuesday, April 3, 2012

DNA Extraction from Wheat Germ

Put 50 ml of raw wheat germs in a test tube and mixed it with 20 ml of hot water. Stirred that for 3 minutes in a constant motion, then added 1 ml of detergent and mixed every minute for 5 minutes. In the process we tried to avoid making foam and we succeeded. Slowly we added 14 ml of alcohol and this caused a reaction. The test tube began to separate into 3 sections and this ghost like flawy white stuff appeared. How did this happen you may ask. . . Well the detergent broke apart the lipid's outer layer and caused its DNA to pop out. After the little white gooey thing came out we noticed it began to separate and separate. This is very similar to our bodies, how the DNA keeps duplicating and getting bigger.

No comments:

Post a Comment