I was spitting snuff into a glass of water in my lab (I know its crude) I was using to grow vitamin C crystals.
I decided for fun to try running a current through the “spittle” using a small power supply I had.
I looked inside the glass, and all of a sudden white strands started clumping together, attaching to the bubbles! The strands were *extremely fine* line hair, and went from the bottom of the clump of vitamin C to the top of the glass.
Is this DNA??
I just read about a simple experiment to extract dna using any cells, using an enzyme, and alcohol. You don’t see a double helix with the eye…you just see strands. This appears to be what I am seeing.
http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/units/activities/extraction/
ed: Im wondering if my Saliva was acting as an enzyme (as in the above example)…quite fascinating..its exactly what they describe above
All the answers that say “dna is too small”..just look at the link above. DNA will club and form white strands.
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