1. Today: DNA Extraction!
Shireen Rudina

2. Procedure
Mash up your fruit with mortar and pestle, it must be completely mashed before #2.
Filter the solution into a beaker, and then transfer to a test tube.
Centrifuge for 10 minutes
Make a solution with 10 mL of detergent and 4 g of salt.
Add this solution to your test tube, and swirl to mix. Incubate for 10 minutes.
Add COLD ethanol to the test tube and watch your chromatin form!

3. Centrifuge must be balanced

4. What are some of the barriers we need to break to extract DNA?
Cell wall
Ribosome
Golgi complex
Nuclear membrane
Cell membrane

5. Which of these objects does NOT have DNA?
Humans=
30,000 genes
3,000 genes
20,000
Fish
Rock
Flower
Bacteria (prokaryotic)