Anvita Goenka
hi everyone! let me share a few things about myself. so i am basically a second year student from srishti school of arts design and technology,bangalore-India.apart from designing i love to travel,i love wildlife and mythology .
May 24th Day-1
Science was one of the subjects in school that used to scare me the most and most of the times what i did in class was either pretentious learning or sleeping. i used to hate it as i did not understand anything. n here i am today a part of i-gem dealing with synthetic biology. at first i was like this is not my cup of tea but how about giving it a try and removing that fear from your system that you cannot study science. The first was full of silences and blankness as what all we learnt in class 10 was coming up and i felt just like we were back in school trying to understand those complicated terms. There was like a chemical concoction going on in my head onto what was happening and what are we supposed to do.i was eagerly waiting for the class to end because again biology and me were poles apart. at night i just began to study all of a sudden about all the basics and give everything one reading at-least and thats when everything made sense and i went like o.O this is actually so cool and i was happy about the fact that i choose to do this and as a team we will produce great work.
May 25th day-2
SO day two was a little less scandalizing as i felt things for me falling into place and all the DNA and RNA and genes began to make sense. todays most exciting part was extracting our own DNA and burring it in whichever way we wanted to. for the extraction you need salt water,prill,alcohol and a test tube and there you can see you DNA after performing the experiment floating on the top. It was an amazing feeling to see that thing as it was nothing else but just white chunks of you.
STEPS 1.Take some salt water in your mouth and gargle for 2 minutes. 2.spit it out in a test tube. 3.Add detergent to it for example-Prill. 4.Add alcohol. 5.There you go you see the strands of your DNA coming up in the form of white chunks.
