AP Biology students take part in DNA lab
Students use pipettes to pull DNA
During AP Biology, senior Jason Biesma and senior Carly Eaton practice using a pipette for a lab on Tuesday, Nov. 5.
Students in science teacher Eric Thomas’ AP Biology class participated in a lab that gave them unique medical experience on Tuesday, Nov. 5. The class placed DNA in a gel solution and put a voltage through the solution to pull the DNA to the positive pull. This helped them to separate two types of DNA and classify them.
Biesma found the lab to be difficult in certain ways.
“One small misstep can ruin the results,” senior Jason Biesma said. “You have to pay attention to accuracy and pay attention to detail.”
The lab required precision, however, Biesma found the positive side to it.
“It provides us with a real world experience and experience with technology used in the modern world,” Biesma said. “You can see things that 100 years ago, people didn’t even know existed.”
Thomas said the experiment was vital to students planning on going into the medical field.
“I love it. It’s something that wasn’t done in high school 20 years ago,” Thomas said. “Imagine reading without the alphabet, this is like the alphabet to the medical field and if we didn’t have these, it would not be easy.”
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