Extracting DNA from Strawberries!

Students learned about how DNA can be extracted from the fatty nuclear membrane of multiploidal strawberry cells. We crushed up the strawberries carefully in a ziploc baggie, added buffer solution (salt and water and soap-very scientific!), and then they slowly poured this mixture into a filtration setup (paper towel in a paper cup), and let it sit for 10 minutes or more. After that, they poured their solution into a test tube and I added ice cold isopropyl alcohol slowly to the tube and voila...This is what they saw!