Title: Materials: (U4 M1) Materials List
Course: SkillsCom BI 102 17.0 > Section: Unit 4 Module 1

Before you begin this Module, you will need to acquire to following items:

Tabletop Lab: Exploring the DNA Molecule

- Ice cold 70% - 90% isopropyl alcohol, easily found in the first aid section in your local grocery store.
- 1 cup cold water
- Ice water, to keep your solutions cold
- Cooking pot (to use as an ice bath)
- 1 – 2 clear drinking glasses or liquid measuring cups
- ½ cup of strawberries. You can use frozen strawberries, but they must be thawed to room temperature before beginning the experiment.
- Blender or Ziploc baggie (To break apart the strawberries, you can either use a blender of smash them by hand a baggie.)
- Table salt, preferably a non-iodized variety such as sea salt.
- Liquid dish soap
- Paper towel or coffee filter
- Pinch of meat tenderizer, easily found in the cooking isle in your local grocery store.
- Kitchen funnel
- Eye dropper
- Barbeque skewers or large toothpicks
- A variety of kitchen measuring utensils:
  - 1/8 teaspoon (or ¼ teaspoon that you can fill halfway)
  - 1 cup liquid measuring cup
  - 1 tablespoon
  - ½  and ¼ dry measuring cup