'Grow Your Own' Exhibition

On Tuesday, 5th of November,
 our horticulture class went on 
a trip into Dublin City Centre 
to the 'Grow Your Own' Exhibition. 
We got a tour of the exhibition 
and we were told about the pieces around.






In this piece, the scientists took cigarettes off the ground of Dublin and used them to extract DNA, they then used that DNA to figure out what the smokers looked like. When they did, an artist created moulds of what they looked like.
                                                                                         

This is a video of a plant factory, the factory is not like every other stainless steel one. Its made of just plants but they are grown using other plants DNA. They are only grown in this desert because of the climate.

This piece is chemical equipment used to make golden flakes. It uses chemicals to make gold but it is a very, very slow process and after a few weeks of this, theres only one tiny nugget of gold made so far.

We then did a DNA test ourselves. We swished a drink around our mouths and bit down on our checks to get DNA cells. We put the drink into the test tube and shook in to mix it even more. We then each added ethanol onto of the drink in the test tube, we had to make sure they didn't mix.

We rolled the tube between our hands at a slight tilt to get a better chance of getting the DNA. When the ethanol became whiter with the clump of DNA, we had to try and take it out. We used a dropper to suck the clump of DNA into a separate container.