Friday, May 1, 2015

DNA Extraction (Virtual Lab)

Contributed by Ms. Ghazarian


pictures from GSLC

5 comments:

Owen said...

I liked this virtual experiment because I learned how to extract DNA as well as why you might want to extract DNA. A cool fact that I learned about DNA is that there is about two meters of DNA in each cell of the body which doesn't even seem possible.

Jenna said...

I thought that the virtual experiment was very cool. It could help teach new doctors to get DNA from a patient. I loved that the experiment stopped to tell the person playing about what was going on and what happened to the DNA. I also liked the sound effects.

Ella said...

I thought the virtual experiment was very fun. Going into the process, I thought it was going to be complicated and long Extracting DNA takes a long time. There are way too many materials to extract, but in the end, I had fun.

Grace said...

I liked this lab because it was fun to extract DNA from a living being. It was also cool to learn about the different machines and devices and other doohickeys and objects used to extract DNA. The link at the end of the article about How To Extract DNA From Any Living Being was cool too. I had a look at that too. Owen, it doesn't seem possible but somehow it is. I can't really imagine two whole meters of DNA inside my body, let alone in each cell. This was a very fun game and it was interactively teaching you about DNA and how and why you'd want to collect it. I'm in Ms. Ghazarian's forensic elective and this is cool to look at because we are learning about hair and fibers and there is DNA there too. This was a very awesome game and I think that it was cool to extract DNA from a "living" person. Also, I liked how they showed you through the process and how DNA looks and how it collects and moves through each step. This was really cool.

Hunter said...

This was a lot cooler than I thought it would be. First of it has these fun yet annoying sounds that keep on checking if you are still watching it. The reason that I'm still not sold on this website is that while you learn a lot it is, very bad at describing some of the facts