550 students, from Classes VII to XII, of the GD Goenka Public School, Lucknow, extracted deoxyribonucleic acid or DNA — the hereditary material in almost all organisms, including humans — from bananas using a custom-made kit to become the largest group of people to conduct the exercise simultaneously.
The students succeeded in extracting DNA from bananas to break the previous Guinness World Record held by the Seattle Children’s Research Institute.
The new record for most people conducting a DNA isolation experiment simultaneously was completed in 61 minutes by the 550 students. The Principal of the school received the Guinness World Records (GWR) certificate after the exercise. On Sunday, another group attempted to create a world record for the largest number of people receiving first-aid classes and succeeded.
Read more of this record breaking achievement in a report by Sowmiya Ashok published in The Indian Express....
