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Strawberry DNAExtraction

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Conclusions & Analysis (Food for thought…)

It is important that you understand the steps in the extraction procedure and why each step
was necessary. Each step in the procedure aided in isolating the DNA from other cellular
materials.

1.! In the box below, draw lines matching the procedure with its function:

Procedure Function
Filter strawberry slurry through cheesecloth To precipitate DNA from solution

Mush strawberry with salty/soapy solution Separate components of the cell

Initial smashing and grinding of strawberry Break open the cells

Addition of ethanol to filtered extract Break up proteins and dissolve cell


membranes

2.! Describe what the DNA looked like

3.! What did mashing the strawberry release (that helped digest and break down the
strawberry)?

4.! Describe the appearance of the strawberry after two minutes of smashing.

5.! What organic macromolecule did the detergent destroy?


What part of the cell contains a lot of this macromolecule?

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6.! What materials were caught in the cheesecloth or other filtering mechanism?

7.! DNA dissolves in water, but not in ethanol. Explain what happened when the alcohol
came in contact with the strawberry extract during the DNA extraction.

8.! A person cannot see a single cotton thread 100 feet away, but if you wound thousands of
threads together into a rope, it would be visible much further away. How is this statement
analogous to our DNA extraction?

9.! In order to study human genes, scientists must first extract the DNA from human tissues.
Would you expect the method of DNA extraction for human DNA to be the same as the
method you used to extract DNA from strawberries? What would be the same, what
would be different?

10.!List two possible scientific questions that could be explored by studying strawberry
DNA.

11.!As mentioned in the background, strawberry cells are octoploid, while banana cells are
triploid. Which do you predict will yield a greater quantity of DNA, 5 g of strawberry
tissue or 5 g of banana tissue? Explain your reasoning.

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