{"id":13667,"date":"2018-09-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-16T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abingdon.prod.twkmedia.eu\/prep\/2018\/09\/17\/year-8-dna-lesson\/"},"modified":"2019-10-30T12:08:45","modified_gmt":"2019-10-30T12:08:45","slug":"year-8-dna-lesson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdon.org.uk\/prep\/year-8-dna-lesson\/","title":{"rendered":"Year 8 DNA Lesson"},"content":{"rendered":"
Did you know humans share 50% of our genes with bananas? Year 8 have been extracting the DNA from bananas in science lessons. First, mush your banana, add hot water, salt and washing up liquid, filter and then add ethanol. After a few minutes the DNA separates out into a cloudy layer which can be extracted from the solution. A fruitful introduction to genetics!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
17 September 2018 Did you know humans share 50% of our genes with bananas? Year 8 have been extracting the DNA from bananas…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13668,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-news","category-news-categories"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n