What is DNA and what does it taste like?

Nile Red

Very interesting. I somehow never heard about this

The picture from the experiment itself <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3663117/figure/F3/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3663117/figure/F3/</a> <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/professor-raymond-gosling-the-pioneer-in-x-ray-diffraction-photography-10375951.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/professor-raymond-gosling-the-pioneer-in-x-ray-diffraction-photography-10375951.html</a> <a href="https://www.dnalc.org/view/15014-Franklin-s-X-ray-diffraction-explanation-of-X-ray-pattern-.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.dnalc.org/view/15014-Franklin-s-X-ray-diffraction-explanation-of-X-ray-pattern-.html</a> <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3663117/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3663117/</a> <a href="http://www.dnaftb.org/19/bio-3.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">http://www.dnaftb.org/19/bio-3.html</a>

Nile Red

I actually haven't heard of the classic experiment.

Nile Red

Yeah I kind of brushed over that accidentally

Nicely done, how hard would it be to go from there to doing the classic x-ray chrystallography experiment that proved the double helix structure ?

Nile Red

I'm glad you liked it! I did this same prep in my first year of Biochem. I never read the lab manual, so when I realized it was dna, I also had a 'mind blown' experience.

Cool! I remember when I did something like this in first grade also with strawberries. The DNA was just like in the video; all slimy and slippery and lovely. Yea, when I heard what I was seeing DNA that just blew my mind. Well I was different back then; now I know it would be slimy and slippery because its a very long chain like polyethylene glycol or egg whites which would do that. Great video NR!

Nile Red

Interesting. I didn't know all that!

Adam Rak

polymers usually have little or no taste, because they cannot fit into the taste receptors. You might want to cook the DNA in dilute citric acid to hydrolyze it. The result should taste mostly bitter, and maybe a little sweet. (The sweetness likely would not be detectable at all)

Simon the Delusional

G, A, C, and T stands for guanine, adenine, cytosine, and thymine'

Maybe you're watching too many of Cody's videos...what with tasting everything haha

Nile Red

I swear it never occurred to me until you suggested it

oh god, your reaction to tasting it, it looks like you were thinking along those lines already

Nile Red

I would assume it's possible

Daniel Blake Shoemaker

Your wearing gloves to aviod contamination from your skin cells. Is it possible to amplify this and anylzie it in PCR-MS.

Nile Red

I cant wait for the Youtube comments

Nile Red

That would be so gross! I wouldve loved to eat it all "wet" but I figured it would affect the taste.

"What is DNA and what does it taste like?" I'm sure there is a blowjob joke in there

Will Latinette

Cool, but sorta anticlimactic also... Maybe if you had used ethyl alcohol and tried it without drying? It could be a new 'IN' drink at parties! :-)