2008 National DNA Day Online Chatroom Transcript

This is just one question from an archive of the National DNA Day Moderated Chat held in April 2008. The NHGRI Director and many genomics experts from across NHGRI took questions from students, teachers and the general public on topics ranging from basic genomic research, to the genetic basis of disease, to ethical questions about genetic privacy.

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Can you do the same strawberry DNA extraction process on other items? If so, please list them?      Kris Wetterstrand, M.S.: Working with the Sequences, Maps and Bacterial Artificial Chromosome (BAC) Libraries Program and the ENCODE (ENCyclopedia Of DNA Elements) project. Onions are also good for a DNA extraction demonstration (the conditions and materials are easy to come by). DNA can be extracted from many things. Sometimes conditions and materials are a more difficulty. When I was a graduate student, I extracted DNA from single fruit flies in a few minutes. Palms Middle School in CA (7th grade student)

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