Add 2 teaspoons of detergent, 1 teaspoon of salt, and ½ cup of water to one of the plastic cups. Stir well. Reseal the bag. Making as few soap bubbles as possible, gently mash the fruit for another minute. Place the coffee filter inside the second plastic cup. Open the bag of mashed-up fruit and pour it into the coffee filter. Gently squeeze the remaining liquid into the cup. Add rubbing alcohol to the cup of extracted fruit liquid. To do this, carefully pour down the edge of the cup the same amount of ice cold rubbing alcohol as there is liquid. This separates the DNA from the rest of the fruit cellular debris If you eat DNA all the time, why aren’t you harmed by it? What implication does this have on the commercial properties of DNA in your hair conditioner, nutritional supplements, skin cream, or genetically modified plants and animals? Strawberries are octoploid. Bananas are triploid. Kiwi fruits are diploid. How does ploidy level influence the amount of DNA in each cell?

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 Add 2 teaspoons of detergent, 1 teaspoon of salt, and ½ cup of water to one of the plastic cups. Stir well. Reseal the bag. Making as few soap bubbles as possible, gently mash the fruit for another minute.

Place the coffee filter inside the second plastic cup. Open the bag of mashed-up fruit and pour it into the coffee filter. Gently squeeze the remaining liquid into the cup.

Add rubbing alcohol to the cup of extracted fruit liquid. To do this, carefully pour down the edge of the cup the same amount of ice cold rubbing alcohol as there is liquid. This separates the DNA from the rest of the fruit cellular debris

If you eat DNA all the time, why aren’t you harmed by it? What implication does this have on the commercial properties of DNA in your hair conditioner, nutritional supplements, skin cream, or genetically modified plants and animals?

Strawberries are octoploid. Bananas are triploid. Kiwi fruits are diploid. How does ploidy level influence the amount of DNA in each cell?

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