No, you can't smoke the DNA

[tangofiction]

Over several years of teaching molecular biology labs, I've heard some great student remarks. A couple of recent examples:



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Student: "Is that the DNA?"



Me: "No... That's a box of plastic pipette tips."



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From a student's report: "The DNA was collected in the field." Where it grew all by itself, sprouting double-helical flowers...



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Student: "I can't dissect a living thing!"



Me: "It's a fruit fly maggot."



Student: "I just can't!" -- as a grown fruit fly lands on his hand, and he kills it.



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Student, pointing to a spray bottle for cleaning laboratory benches: "Is that ethanol?"



Me: "Mostly. There is also a bit of methanol in there."



Student, horrified: "But isn't that toxic?"



Me: "Not unless you drink it."



Student: "I only had one sip!!"



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Tango

Comments

[Долли Обломская]

(But I can understand the double standards of the guy with the fly)))

[tangofiction]

Oh, me too - I wouldn't have forced him to do it or anything, it was just funny.