Disease Gene Lab Discussion

A) As it turns out, I have the genetic trait which causes the disease. Although this is not an actual disease, the process was still emotionally challenging, and I will take a long time to recover from this unfortunate diagnosis.

B) Sources of Error:

-Period 4 ran the gel for too long, so it melted thus destroying our actual results.

-We dropped the tubes after centrifuging once, and on the second time we centrifuged too much.

-We ran the gel the wrong way at first.

-We analyzed period 4's gel instead of our own, and the three of them were infact diseased instead of us.

-We analyzed the DNA of a strawberry seed instead of a cheek cell.

-We used insufficient time to vortex each sample.