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Can you extract a DNA from a strawberry, if so will you be able to see the DNA without using a microscope?
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My purpose is to see if the DNA from a strawberry can be extracted by using house hold chemicals.
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All living things come with instructions stored in their DNA, short for deoxyribonucleic acid. Whether you are a human, rat, tomato, or bacteria, each cell will have DNA inside of it. DNA is the blueprint for everything that happens inside the cell of an organism, and each cell has an entire copy of the same set of instructions. The entire set of instructions is called the genome. Scientists study DNA for many reasons. They can figure out how the instructions
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