May 22, 2013: Day One

We attained our samples of the Fred Meyer Shrimp and extracted DNA from three different kinds of shrimp sold there. We had the wild caught Pacific white shrimp from Mexico and we had farm grown white shrimp and we had some large white shrimp that were farm grown.

We had to go through the procedure to extract the DNA twice. The first time we confused the supernatant and pellet of the DNA and the tissue matter, so we had mush as a product the first time around. So I, Coyla, stayed back to repeat the first portion of the lab once more.

 Long story short, we took our time getting cozy with our anthropoid friends and very tentative of our procedure.

Smaller farm grown shrimp. Sample one.

Mexico wild caught shrimp. Sample 2. 

Larger farm grown shrimp. Sample 3.