DNA in the grocery store!.

Monday, March 5, 2007

UPDATE

Today is Monday,March 5th, and my group and I (Saskia and Jade) have gathered our materials. We shall be starting our procedure on Thursday, March 8th at Saskia's house.

Wat we will be working with:

-test tubes
-kiwiks
-green grapes
-strawberries
-raspberries
-beackers
(WE WILL BE USING A DIGITAL CAMERA, AND PAPER/PENS TO DOCUMENT AND RECORD EVERYTHING WE DO AS WE FOLLOW THROUGH THE PROCEDURE TASK BY TASK)

COMING SOON- A Look at our Experiment, what data we have collected so far......

Wednesday, February 7, 2007

RESOURCES.

“DNA Extraction From Fruit.” 04112005. <http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/askasci/mole0059.htm>

Australian Government agency Biotechnology Australia. "How Does DNA work?." <http://www.biotechnologyonline.gov.au/biotec/dnawork.cfm>.

"Your Genes, Your Choices." Science + Literacy for Health
<http://ornl.gov/sci/techresources/human_genome/publicat/genechoice/glossary.html>.

Australian Government agency Biotechnology Australia. "What Does
DNA Look Like?." <http://www.biotechnologyonline.gov.au/biotec/dnalook.cfm>.

"DNA." Wikipedia <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/dna>.

"Chromosomes." Wikipedia <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/chromosomes>.

"Fruits." Wikipedia <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/fruits>.

Rensberger, Boyce. Life Itself. NYC, NY. USA.: The Oxford
University Press, 1996.

OUR PROJECT.

INTRODUCTION:For our project, we are going to extract DNA from different fruits. Then, we are going to see which fruit has the most DNA compared to it's wieght.

HYPOTHESIS:
I (saskia) think that the strawberry will have the most DNA proportional to it's wieght. Since, the amount of DNA depends on the size and amount of chromosomes, I think the strawberry will have the most, making it have the most DNA.

MATERIALS:
The materials we are going to need in order to complete our experiment are the following:
-Raspberries