Suppose you took all the DNA out of a human and put it in a glass beaker. What would it look like? How much would there be? And what would happen to the human if all the DNA were suddenly “beamed” out of the body?
As regards what it looks like, according to this site, “a spindly white substance”.
I think the instructions are from the New Scientist book, “How to Fossilise your Hamster”.
I know in some of the forensics shows, when they are doing a DNA extract, frequently they end up showing a tiny vial of some liquid with these whiteish clearish 'noodles] that look sort of like short segments of boiled rice noodles. For all i know, that may be what theya re suing to fuck with our minds=) But I think that it is probably close to the truth.
BINGO!
How to extract DNA from an onion, I figure it cant look too different from anumal DNA …
I recall seeing a film back in med school that showed purified DNA as being a very, very viscous whitish-clear liquid.
This is a slight hijack, but if you had a bowl filled with pure dna, does anyone know how it would taste? Would it taste the same regardless of species?
I would venture to guess mildly sour, being as DNA stands for deoxyribonucleic acid, and acids generally taste sour. I suppose it could also taste sweet, since the molecule is built up of units of a sugar called deoxyribose. I’ll leave it to someone else to actually conduct the taste test, however.
In high school biology, when we collected samples of our DNA, it looked sort of like small-curd cottage cheese. So far as I know, though, none of us tasted it.
It looks like spooge.
Can you pan-fry it, and how many calories?
So we’re all ugly bags of mostly water, with a bit of spooge inside.
But what happens should some unlikely alien decide to de-spooge us?
I work with DNA. It is very goopy, like snot. Imagine a big test tube of it. You can use a sonicator (a device that emits sound) to break it up pretty easily though, or use a centrifuge to pellet it.
Generally the amount needed for molecular biology applications like a dot blot or Sourthern blot is ~10 micrograms, which is about 3 million copies of human genomic DNA. Of course, most people don’t work with that much anymore, nowadays we need only a few copies for PCR applications.
You know a hot glue gun? You know how the glue looks like when it’s hot? Sort of like that.
This is some out shit here.
I just checked the date, it’s not April 1, and here is this thread on the Dope with people telling you how to look at your own fucking DNA. 
Can you really do this with vodka and dish soap? This could be the ultimate party trick.
It’s late here. Am I dreaming?
Nope, like I said upthread, its in a popular science book by New Scientist at least.
An extract describing the process was actually published in a British red top tabloid a few months back when the book was released. Such papers are pretty trashy and seem to cover mostly sports and gossip and/or boobage, yet in the middle of it all there it was, a way to extract your own DNA 
But what happens when if it disappeared from your body, would you basically literally break down as new cells receive no instructions on how to form?
As I recall, all the excess/obsolete spooge is sucked out of the hero’s body at one point… good read: Signal to Noise
Here in the office we got sent a little kit to extract your own DNA and put it in a vial to use as a necklace - it was to promote some science week thing or other. I took it home but never got round to trying it out, but yes the process is very straightforward.
I recall a picture I saw in a magazine once of a guy with a good sized cup of DNA; he was holding some up out of the cup with a glass rod ( “Life on a stick” ). Given how much of it was hanging onto the rod it’s obviousy goopy indeed. It looked white and translucent-shiny, as I recall ( but it’s been a long time ).
It reminds me of…oh, never mind
This is a fer-real experiment. My daughter’s class did it is 4th grade, and she repeated it at home.
Schools are teaching 4th graders how to extract spooge, and not a word from the religious right? During an election year?