OBJECTIVES:
- Extract and watch banana's DNA
MATERIAL:
acetic orcein
pineapple juice
PROCEDURES:
1. Weigh 100g of banana, put it on a dish and crush it
2. In a beaker add 3g of sodium chloride, 100mL of H2O and 10mL of soap.
3. Add the
banana
4. Strain the contentswith a colander in another beaker. With
the spatula mix the dissolution.
5. Strain it using filter paper. Put funnel in a 200mL graduated cylinder and the paper on a the funnel
6. With a pipette, put 5mL of the mixture in graduated cylinder and
add 1mL of pineapple juice.
7. With another pipette add 6mL of cold ethanol.
8. With a glass spatula remove some filaments and put them in
a microscope slide and add a drop of acetic orcein
QUESTIONS:
1. How do you get rid of the membranes surrounding DNA? by denaturation
2. Why use pineapple juice? use it because it is a good denaturant
3. How to get scattered precipitation of DNA? because the membrane that protects the DNA is destroyed
PHOTOS: