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by gabrielcrist 413 days ago
I recently heard that you can extract visible DNA from a strawberry using just basic household materials. Apparently, because strawberries are octoploid — having eight copies of each chromosome — the DNA yield is high enough to see with the naked eye.
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My kid had a science kit that said we would do this, but we never got that far.