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Hello/Namaste unicellular and multi cellular organisms. This is Sohil Bhatia, a 19 year old art student from Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology, Bangalore, India. Currently in the second year of college and indulging myself in different fields from art, design and theatre to microbiology.
 
Hello/Namaste unicellular and multi cellular organisms. This is Sohil Bhatia, a 19 year old art student from Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology, Bangalore, India. Currently in the second year of college and indulging myself in different fields from art, design and theatre to microbiology.
  
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It was DNA extraction day  and I was stirred up by the idea of it. But the class began with a presentation by Allison Kudla about her work. Her work exhibit was extremely inspiring and I felt she’d aone a commendable job by bringing together art(traditional as well as digital), science and technology. To learn more about  her work, you could visit www.allisonx.com.
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[[File:Burial10.jpg|200px|thumb|right|DNA cremation (DNA का दाह - संस्कार )]]
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It was DNA extraction day  and I was stirred up by the idea of it. But the class began with a presentation by Allison Kudla about her work. Her work exhibit was extremely inspiring and I felt she had done a commendable job by bringing together art(traditional as well as digital), science and technology. To learn more about  her work, you could visit www.allisonx.com.
 
After the presentation we got our hands on the test tubes. DNA extraction was as much fun as it sounds.
 
After the presentation we got our hands on the test tubes. DNA extraction was as much fun as it sounds.
  
Steps-
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1) Salt water
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2)Liquid Soap
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3)Rubbing alcohol from a medical store
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4)Test tube
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'''Steps for DNA extraction-'''
  
 
1) Take some salt water and play with it in your mouth,
 
1) Take some salt water and play with it in your mouth,
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Subsequently came the time for DNA burial which seemed quite interesting. Considering I come from a Hindu family where a corpse is not buried but burned, I decide to do the same with my DNA. I made a pyre and poured my DNA over it to burn.  
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Subsequently came the time for DNA burial which seemed quite interesting. Considering I come from a Hindu family where a corpse is not buried but burned, I decide to do the same with my DNA. I made a pyre with some dry stems and poured my DNA over it to burn.
 
 
[[File:Burial10.jpg|200px|thumb|right|DNA cremation (DNA का दाह - संस्कार )]]
 

Revision as of 00:14, 3 June 2011

Sohil Bhatia (IGerm) 'Two-faced'

Hello/Namaste unicellular and multi cellular organisms. This is Sohil Bhatia, a 19 year old art student from Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology, Bangalore, India. Currently in the second year of college and indulging myself in different fields from art, design and theatre to microbiology.

No wonder my friends call me two faced. Here I am with my second side i.e.science, not too bright but still flickering . I have always been interested in science especially biology but was more inclined towards art so landed up in a design school. It’s been one whole year since I have been off science and surprisingly, even after my horrible scores in 11th and 12th grade, it does not seem like an alien language.





DAY ONE - TWENTY FOURTH MAY, TWO THOUSAND AND ELEVEN



Like I had assumed, the class began with a discussion on what we were on for. Gradually, it grew to some basic learning and research about synthetic biology, DNA, genes, cells et cetera, to wake up the brain cells that’d been off theoretical knowledge for a while. To make the learning part fun, I resorted to interactive cell and DNA models and playing quizzes on the internet. I also looked up some videos that explained with diagrams to make it easier for me to apprehend. I also came across a very well designed ‘drag and drop the cell part’ game.

Later in the day we talked about existence of life that is formless. The rest of the time was spent thinking of a new form of life. These were the ideas I came up with.

1) A living organism that eats the waste protein from the human body resulting in less hair growth.

2) A bacteria that lives on human skin and eats up all the waste excreted there i.e. oil, sweat and salts for it’s survival.


DAY TWO - TWENTY FIFTH MAY, TWO THOUSAND AND ELEVEN



Steps for DNA extraction (DNA उद्धरण करने का तरीका)
DNA cremation (DNA का दाह - संस्कार )

It was DNA extraction day and I was stirred up by the idea of it. But the class began with a presentation by Allison Kudla about her work. Her work exhibit was extremely inspiring and I felt she had done a commendable job by bringing together art(traditional as well as digital), science and technology. To learn more about her work, you could visit www.allisonx.com. After the presentation we got our hands on the test tubes. DNA extraction was as much fun as it sounds.

Materials Required -

1) Salt water

2)Liquid Soap

3)Rubbing alcohol from a medical store

4)Test tube

Steps for DNA extraction-

1) Take some salt water and play with it in your mouth,

2)Spit out in a test tube.

3)Slowly pour some liquid soap along the side of the test tube and let it stay for 2 minutes.

4)Gntly pour 10-12 drops of alcohol in the test tube, again along the side.

5)The translucent white thing gradually rising into the alcohol layer and floating is your DNA.


Subsequently came the time for DNA burial which seemed quite interesting. Considering I come from a Hindu family where a corpse is not buried but burned, I decide to do the same with my DNA. I made a pyre with some dry stems and poured my DNA over it to burn.