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Handleiding

“HandsUp!”

yells

Hank

Schubert as his buddy Rudy Kramer holds the

two bank tellers and the other employees at

bay in the back of the room.

For months, both robbers worked on

ﬁguring out a plan for robbing the savings

bank. The day has ﬁnally come. Tires

squealing, they set off at : on the dot,

pull on their masks, throw open the car

doors, and race into the bank. “Just tell me

what you want,” says the branch manager

Frank Milton calmly, as he leads the two

robbers toward the safe. Less than two

minutes later, the robbers have stuffed

, dollars and  cents into a sack and

are running toward the car, which their

partner Martin Adler is keeping warmed up

and ready to go with the engine running. The

only problem is that in the heat of the

moment Schubert runs into the glass door

and cuts his hand. The main thing is to get

away, he thinks. And soon the car speeds off

and leaves the scene.

“No trace of the perpetrators...” reads the

headline in the paper the next morning.

“Police are in the dark...”

Ten minutes after the holdup,

Commissioner Walter Reddy is at the scene of

the crime, interviewing witnesses — but he

isn’t getting much out of them.

“One of them was about  feet tall, the

other was shorter,” offers one of the bank

tellers. “The taller one smelled of cigarettes

and had a southern accent,” adds the branch

manager. “Pretty meager,” sobs Reddy.

There are no ﬁngerprints, of course, since

the two were smart enough to wear gloves.

But Rob Green, the man from the forensics

department, looks around a little more

carefully.

He does at least manage to ﬁnd a few drops

of blood by the front doors and on the ﬂoor,

which he carefully scrapes off and places in a

test tube. And in front of the branch there are

a couple cigarette butts on the ground. “The

driver smoked,” suggests one of the bank

employees. “Not too bright,” says Green.

His colleagues tell him to look for and

gather tiny residues of hair or clothing in the

vault. They might later be able to use them to

supply a piece of evidence that is clear

enough to get a confession from the

perpetrators. Assuming, of course, that the

police can nab them.

In this kit, you will be able to see how that works. You

will isolate genetic material, the material that basically

contains the “program” for a living organism. You will

learn how researchers have decoded this program

down to the smallest details. You will also investigate

what you have in common genetically with your

parents and grandparents (and what, on the other

hand, makes you unique), and at the end you will be

able to help bring the three bank robbers to justice. At

the center of it all is the molecule that has done more

than any other over the last hundred years to change

our understanding of life: DNA.

Have you ever wondered why you get only tomatoes

from tomato plants, and only potatoes from potato

plants? Rabbits have rabbit babies and humans have

human babies. Did you ever wonder why tomatoes

don’t have rabbit babies? It has to do with a gigantic

programming code inside all living things. Science has

been tracking this code down for over 150 years. Today

it is ﬁnally clear where it is located. It is even possible

to isolate the material that contains this program. Let’s

take a look.

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