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Go Bananas! Introduction Tell you about DNA Show you how to extract DNA from a Banana What Do you know about DNA? Genes are made of DNA. Animal and plant cells contain DNA. A plant cell contains about 3 m of DNA. A meal is about


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Go Bananas!

  • Introduction
  • Tell you about DNA
  • Show you how to extract DNA from a

Banana

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Genes are made of DNA. Animal and plant cells contain DNA. A plant cell contains about 3 m of DNA. A meal is about 55,000,000 cells ... which is 165 million kilometers of DNA. This would stretch around the world three times!

What Do you know about DNA?

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DNA Structure

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Plant cell Nucleus Cell wall Cell membrane Nuclear membrane

DNA in the Cell

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1 Mashing: breaks down tough cell walls. 2 Salt solution: brings DNA strands together. 3 Washing-up liquid:

– breaks down cell/nuclear membranes – clumps together other cell contents.

4 Filtration: removes other cell material. 5 Ethanol: brings DNA out of solution.

DNA extraction - Summary