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Tuesday, 17 August 2021

Kiwi-Fruit DNA extraction

Ingredients
1/2 kiwifruit
Access to clean water
Plastic sealable ball
Plastic cup
Shampoo 
Table Salt
Chilled Isopropyl alcohol (90%)
Spoon
Coffee filter
Clear Narrow Tube or Jar 

Method

Put half the kiwi fruit in a bag and put a bit of water into the bag then turn it into a mash.
Put tsp of shampoo, 2 pinches of salt and 4 tsps of water. Stir until the shampoo dissolves.
Add 2 tsp of Kiwi-fruit slushie to the soap solution and stir for 5 minutes.
Now use a coffee filter in a plastic cup to filter out all the kiwi chunks
Fill the narrow tube with 2tsp of cold isopropyl alcohol, then very carefully add tsps of the filtered kiwi fruit so that there are two layers of liquid.
let the tube sit for 2-3 minutes




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