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Extracting DNA from Strawberries – Food Science

Extracting DNA from Strawberries – Food Science
Given all of the years that I have spent teaching children to cook and eat healthy, it comes as no surprise that I like to include food in my high school biology curriculum.  Right now, we are finishing up a unit on cell division and DNA.  My students were thrilled to find a large mug filled with strawberries on my desk this week on our lab day.  But they couldn't get over the strange mixture of odors - the sweet fragrance of the berries combined with the vapors evaporating from our bottles of...

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