Science Buddies: "Ask an Expert"

Hello Scince Buddies:)
I have a science fair coming soon- on December 10, 2003. The topic I amo working on is genetic testing.
The idea I have is to make a movie showing what genetic testing is, what types of such testing there are, what are some ethical issues of it. The problem is that if I have only this movie, it will be quite boring and no one would pay attention to my project. So I was wondering whether any of you has an idea how can I show a genetic test to my classmates and teachers? It may not be a real test, but if I want to catch attention, there should be some kind of demonstration going on. Please help me!
Does anyone have an idea how to show an alternative genetic test or to make up something that works in the same way or I don't know... And I am not from USA so I really can't buy one from the Internet. My high school has a lab with nice materials, but I don't think that any of those would really help me- they are more like for chemistry classes. There are microscopes and slides with different kinds of cells if that gives you any relevant information...
Any help would be greatly appreciated!!
Thanks very much in advance!
Have a nice day and smile everyone!
Yours,
smile

Strictly speaking, what I'm about to suggest isn't a genetic test. However, you can do an interesting and safe experiment at home to extract DNA from strawberries. It turns out that strawberry (and some other fruit) DNA is huge and easy to isolate. Here are three sites that discuss how to do it:

http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Programs/d ... rydna.html

http://carnegieinstitution.org/first_li ... RRYteacDNA Note this one is a pdf file.

http://www.mrsortbiology.com/berryfullofdnalab.doc Note this one is an MS Word file.

Ken -- Science Buddies Staff