Extracting DNA from bodies is incredibly easy, so easy you can do it in your kitchen. Take a handful of tissue from some plant or animal—peas, or steak, or chicken liver. Add some salt and water and pop everything in a blender to mush up the tissue. Then add some dish soap. Soap breaks up the membranes that surround all the cells in the tissue that were too small for the blender to handle. After that, add some meat tenderizer. The meat tenderizer breaks up some of the proteins that attach to DNA. Now you have a soapy, meat-tenderized soup, with DNA inside. Finally, add some rubbing alcohol to
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