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. 

Kinda looks like a layer cake or something

     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.