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DNA Fruit Amounts

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DNA Fruit Amounts 


name Robert
status other
grade 9-12
location TX

Question - Does the amount of DNA differ when extracted from
different fruits?
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Plants can be polyploid, which means they have multiple sets of chromsomes.
For example, strawberries are octaploid, they have 8 sets.  When extracting
DNA from a strawberry you get gobs of DNA.

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