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Name: Robert
Status: Other
Grade:  9-12
Location: TX
Country: United States
Date: March 2007
Question:
Does the amount of DNA differ when extracted from different fruits?


Replies:
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.

Vanhoeck


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