Name:____________________________
Salk Mobile Science Lab
Extracting DNA
DNA: THE MOLECULE OF LIFE
1.
_________ is the chemical instruction book for all plants, animal and single cell organisms.
2.
Plant cells have a _______ _______ which is a hard covering on the outside of the cell.
3.
The _______________ is where DNA is located in animal and plant cells.
4.
Single instructions of DNA are called ____________.
5.
The complete DNA instructions for an organism, called its _____________, codes for the
appearance of the organism, called its __________________.
6.
Any change in the DNA genes is called a _____________________.
7.
DNA is a string of chemical units? True or False?
8.
Human DNA contains how many base pairs of chemical units (A, T, G, C’s) ?
A. 300
B. 3 Billion
C. 1 million
9.
What color is DNA?
Your hypothesis:
10.
Actual results:
DNA extraction is used in science for (give at least one example):