Tuesday, March 29, 2011
DNA graph
From the looks of this graph, it appears to have 2 people that are fairly normal people and one thats a little off. But in further analysis that Mr. Ludwig went through, Abby and Bob aren't all that good off. Abby contains signs of CF(cystic fibrosis) Although its not likely to become such a major problem, it is present. Also Bob is in a position where his body doesn't make enough protein to keep up with the rapid making of the DNA strands his body does. But Carrol, shes a different story. shes got alot of differences. but the reason why she has so many is that the pattern in her DNA was offset. Meaning that it went from being just one mistake, to leading on and having allot of mistakes as the pattern continued on. All from just one offset pattern.
Thursday, March 3, 2011
booger degreasing of wheat germ (DNA extraction)
When I mixed up wheat germ, water and soap together I thought, "what in the world are we doing". i hadn't a clue why in the world we would be mixing these three things together. Then after slowly pouring in some alcohol to the mixture, white DNA began to appear in between the layers of the detergent and the alcohol.
The DNA from the wheat germ has the fatty phospholipid on the out side of its cells. Now, what does detergent do, or what is is used for? Its used to clean off the fatty foods from our dishes and what not. It does that by breaking apart the fats, the make up of the outter cells of the DNA. So when we added the soap/detergent, it broke up the fats in the cells and allowed us to view them. Then after we added the alcohol, it extracted the broken up DNA into the alcohol mixture and allowed us to see them in a clean, boogery looking texture.
Kinda looks like a layer cake or something
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