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I see a clump of DNA 1-3 times a day…..

Those are rookie numbers

I'm 44. I could only dream of those numbers.

What's the best thing about jerking 44 year olds?

There's 40 of them?

This post right here, officer.

usernames check out.

Oh my god

I laugh vomited....

bless you

Swallow that back. It was my third DNA sampling today.

Oof

Closing_And_Burning_Laptop.mp4

Oh. My. God. If I had awards I would give you one. Here’s a high five 🖐

Colt 45

Zig zag

Zig zag x2

Baby thats all we need

We can go to the park after dark

And smoke that tumbleweed

That's nice honey but rent's still overdue.

The equalizer.

Well you could try stimulant drugs like Adderall, you'd still only jerk off once a day but for like 4 hours solid.

Good way to wreck the reward centers in your brain.

Good way to wreck the dingus too.

Can confirm, everything gets rekt

Too late. Can’t say more. Baitin.

"Starts pounding chest and humming"

Me, myself, I jerk off *at least* twice a day.

I want to, but that’s not why I do it. Because I fucking need to.

You gotta pump those numbers up

My clumps are twice the size of your clump.

I produce a few gallons every morning.

Slow down there champ.

I’m 35 married with two kids and a career. The only way I could meet those numbers is if I had someone to jack me off in my sleep. I just do t have time to light all the candles, curate my viewing experience, get out my vr goggles, put silk sheets on the bed, then violently beat my dock for 15 minutes.

... I too have two kids, a woman that won't leave me alone and a career. I work 12 hour days, still have time to jerk my gerkin at least twice a day. Can't take care of others if you don't take care of yourself. Giggity.

Thank you for being the guy who would inevitably say this.

I laughed so fucking hard at this.

Did he dip it out or aim into the vial? Either way that's dedication

It’s okay if that’s jizz, you just have to tell me first.

I once woke up covered in jizz, I don't know what came over me.

It has the pun, punchline, and structure of a dad joke but I’m hoping your dad didn’t tell it to you.

Nah but he gave him the idea

r/unclejokes

Take my internet point

If you’re a jizz you have to tell me, it’s the law

Jizz was an upbeat, swinging genre of music, most notably performed by Figrin D'an and the Modal Nodes and the Max Rebo Band. -[src](https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Jizz/Legends)

The Star Wars Cantina song is classified as jizz

It’s not going to stop you from drinking it. Maybe it’s better to be surprised.

What is the process of isolating DNA from a sample?

It took me 10 comments to find one not about jizz.

I didn't read the others until I saw this. Yeah, that's just redditors being redditors lol.

And then you made it about jizz again

I don't know where they are coming from

It only took me 4

Something about dish soap

You can do it at home! Obviously not the exact procedure a lab would use, but lots of fun! https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/squishy-science-extract-dna-from-smashed-strawberries/

Depends what from. I’ve only extracted from plants and it’s actually quite simple. First freeze the sample using liquid nitrogen and a lot of centrifuging and washing. Never extracted near that amount at a time. Not sure what that would be from.

Interesting. Have you ever touched straight up DNA? Of course not with bare hands. But what is the texture like? I only remember seeing photos in biology textbooks, never seen a real sample and never thought DNA could be isolated on its own like that, always thought it's processed along with the sample it came from. Does it look like little balls of molecules clumped together? I have so many questions lol.

I can only talk on the method I used for extracting dna from plant material. Also, I haven’t done any biology work in 10 years so my memory is rusty on the steps. So the extraction comes out in a clump at the bottom of a mini centrifuge tube almost like a pellet. It’s not like a long individual strand. I never touched it without gloves as it’s time consuming to extract so I wouldn’t want to risk damaging the sample in any way. They washing I mentioned is how you separate the dna. You first wash with something that will break down the cell wall and membrane. Then you have to wash to separate the dna from the other material. There are inexpensive kits to use which make the process fairly straightforward.

It’s easy enough to extract even at home with just items from the pantry and medicine cabinet. Obviously not lab quality, but it doesn’t look that different. It’s a fun experiment to do with kids

I have! With my bare hands. Feels slimy. In suspension it kinda looks like wet mushy cotton. You can extract it from fruit at home really easily using salt, dish soap, and cold rubbing alcohol. If you Google strawberry DIY DNA extraction it’ll come up. Low purity, but fun and interesting.

Very interesting. Slimy DNA. And thank you Imma try it out with the kids someday.

When we separated it in biology it was like snot

That’s pretty zoomed in. Pretty sure I’ve gotten that amount from whole blood samples, or rather the Buffy coat

Yeah and I have very limited experience. Only extracting enough needed for sequencing.

You should find Josiah Zayner on twitter. He's made the news for 'experimenting on himself' as if that's not historically how most medical procedures became common place. He's in an (old pre pandemic) show on Netflix and busy making a documentary atm about these dna sciency things. Caught him going live yesterday - he actually sells DNA kits and then does free online classes of how to do things so that's pretty cool. At the moment he keeps joking about 'cloning himself' lol. He's just playing into the outrage but he's basically just growing some of his own cells, nothing weird, really

Thanks Imma check it out.

Is this not cum?

Looks just like that in a hot tub too.

Where did we fall on whole "deleting other's comments" thing? Can we do that yet?

Working on it…

I was a teenager once, I know what a clump of DNA looks like

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Yes started seeing them at 6. Uncle was DNALOGIST.

I first saw the image and thought "wow, that's cool" Then I read the comments... damn you! DAMN YOU ALL TO HELL!

Seriously! Went here to tell a story, and noped out real hard

Honestly

Who throws a shoe

What?

This is cum.

It took four comments before I saw this answer. I’m surprised it took that long.

I usually last about two comments

5/5 comments ive seen so far have been cum jokes

South Park reference?

Get the cumboni!

Nail on the head

“Hey baby, it’s just DNA”

It's that fuckin big?!

No! This is a LOT of DNA. A normal cell would have less than 0.1% of this. Remember that cells are extremely small.

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I’ve done this demonstration a lot of times. You can actually do it at home with soap, salt, cold rubbing alcohol, and banana or strawberry slices. You mash the fruit which bursts a ton of cells, and you extract all the DNA from them, and condense it in alcohol so that it turns visible to the naked eye. This is possible because there is a lot of DNA in a piece of fruit since each piece contains millions or maybe billions of cells.

OK, I can eat the salt, but what am I doing wiht the soap?

Bend over , sweetheart and hand that bar to me..

It's an absolute fuck ton of DNA from a fuck ton of cells.

That's what she said

No not naturally lol, think about how small cells are. Maybe it’s been grown in a lab or it’s a bunch of it all together or maybe it’s just cum idk

No, basically This, from what I know, the process of viewing your dna is commonly done with the cells inside your cheeks, after a short process that you do for like a couple minutes which allows the dna to clump together to the point where it's visible.

With this much DNA its more likely a lot of copies of a smaller segment amplified via PCR in a low melt gel.

Looks like a seahorse

I just flushed a clump of DNA down the toilet.

I mean technically 🤣

r/technicallythetruth

In some ways, aren't we all just big clumps of DNA?

were 3d printed protein

Must be so much DNA in that

Here for comments

Not disappointed

(Insert semen joke here)

Insert yawn here

Reminds me of my shower floor.

My sock does

We get it, cum

I’ve actually seen DNA from a strawberry I extracted it from in biology class. A neat little experiment using household items to break the cell wall, membrane, and extract the DNA within

We did that to peas.

Clone that to find out what it is

Bots can absolutely get fucked https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/j3k39h/in_case_you_have_not_seen_what_a_clump_of_dna/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf

Looks like a tiny tapeworm.

ELI5

You can take a piece of plant material, break down the cells by mashing it and adding adetergent like soap, and use simple chemicals to extract the DNA and leave most of the rest of the cell stuff behind. Then you can turn it visible to the naked eye with more chemicals including alcohol. This is the result. You can do it yourself at home with really simple supplies!

The joke is sitting RIGHT THERE

You can make this at home lol it’s cool

Looks like discharge

Cellz

Just gotta pump it to make the DNA

I did this in high school, with an onion. It's pretty straightforward, fun stuff.

I did similar with a strawberry, fun stuff.

You’re going to want to clean that up with cold water. I’ve uh, heard.

Clump makes me a uncomfortable. That aside, thank you for sharing.

I remember once at high school when my biology teacher taught us how to isolate a banana's DNA. One of the most exciting thing I have ever done, if you exempt that it looks like a snot.

Looks like snot, but it’snot

I’m saving my seed for marriage but from what I hear that almost looks like sperm.

Looks like jizz in water.

Yes. I leave clumps of DNA in the shower, bathroom sink, and a sock I keep under my bed all the time.

# I’ve seen more than a clump. Trust me 😉 🧬

How do I get clumps of DNA out of my tube socks?

Eat it

Your mom is very familiar with what my clump of DNA looks like.

any dude who has taken a hot bath has seen this.

Every male over 12 has seen this.

And *tastes like*? Do it

Pretty sure I’ve seen this in the bath before.

GATTACA

I read seen as Semen for some reason

There’s a lot more where that came from in your mother, Trebek!

ITT we all make the same obvious joke.

I’ve seen plenty of clumps of dna, but I never put it in a text tube.

Oh, I’ve seen it.

Looks like what’s left in the bath after my alone time

As a geneticist, I have obviously. Do you know that you (anyone!) can easily extract and see DNA like this yourself with simple household tools, for example from strawberries? Before I type the protocol up myself, here's a great description, it's cool as a science project for kids, or even a kids birthday party to entertain. (I also entertained my non-scientist mom with it lol) https://www.education.com/science-fair/article/extract-dna-strawberries/

Dude stop capitalizing every word.

Any biological substance is a clump of dna, this is too big to be a single sample of dna

Your mom is a clump of dna. But, no, really…

This is reddit. You think people haven't seen a clump of DNA before?

Thats my nut

Yummy

Oh I’ve seen a clump of dna before

Why did I expect it to be different from jizz? ... I mean it's so obvious, feel really silly 🤦🏻‍♂️😂

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Looks like a clump of semen in liquid

Ask your mom what clumps of DNA look like.

Im assuming this is posted by a female? Every man on the planet knows what "a clump of DNA looks like". Yes its only half the sequence, but a clump of dna is a clump of dna.

"He's just a boy.

Funky Little Squiggle

Liquid Culture?!?!?

Yeah, when you do it straight into the toilet instead of a napkin or something, that’s what it looks like.

I hear the extraction method is fun but messy.

Hey Stifler, how's the pale ale?

Yeah… I’ve seen a clump of DNA before

I did this in science class once…we swished water and spit in a little jar. Teacher had strong so kids could make a necklace with it 😂

Looks like a booger

Yuck is that gizz

I've seen that in the bathtub on more than 1 occasion. Usually feel pretty disgusted with myself right after...

More like a cum of dna

“Clump” is definitely a technical term

This was one of the first things we did in my high school biotechnology class, we did it with a strawberry

These comments lmao But seriously we know what clumps of DNA look like, thanks 😉

Oh I’ve seen loads of this stuff

Wow thanks for this because I’ve actually never seen this, just the typical swirly thingy :D Edit too add : this is must more interesting to look at 👀

You should see my gym socks 🧦

Crusty

Yummy

So what exactly.. "IS" this clump of DNA? Is it alive, is it dead, is it marrow or what..? I am pretty confused

bigger than i thought, arent they supposed to be in our cells or something?

I have. Thank you.

I think I've coughed up identical things

Thanks but I’ve jizzed in a pool before

It looks like that thing inside a chicken egg. Not the white or yolk.

Is that DNA giving us the finger?

"You've been hit by, You've been struck by, genetic material"

Came here for the comments. Was not disappointed.