- So what we did was peel the fruit and chop it into small chunks. You don't want the skin because it's mostly dead and doesn't have much DNA in it.
Then incubate the fruit and buffer mixture at 60 degrees Celsius for 15 minutes. Carefully put the jar or bag with the fruit into the incubator and leave to stand for 15 minutes. Incubation helps to break up the cells further and starts to degrade some of the cell's proteins.
Remove the test tube from the incubator and pour the fruit mixture through a fine sieve or filter paper into a jar. This removes all the unwanted lumps and bits of fruit, including cell walls and membranes. You should be left with a smooth liquid, and this contains the fruit DNA.
4. DNA is found everywhere in your body like cell nucleus where it is called nuclear DNA but a small amount of DNA can also be found in the mitochondria.
5. Three traits I have from my dad is his nose and height also eyes from mum.
6. compare there face to parent. or if you can twist you tough that means one of your parent can do it. Also if you have dimples one of you parent have it my sister has dimple and my mum dose.
