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General Science => General Science => Topic started by: elegantlywasted on 23/02/2006 01:50:37

Title: What does licking bitter tasting paper test for?
Post by: elegantlywasted on 23/02/2006 01:50:37

years ago in a high school biology class our teacher had us lick a piece of paper, if it tasted bitter we had (or were missing) a certain gene, or vice versa.

Does anyone know what paper it was or what it was testing for?

-Meg

Title: What does licking bitter tasting paper test for?
Post by: RD on 29/06/2008 03:23:59

PTC paper (paper impregnated with phenylthiocarbamide) ...
http://genetics-education-partnership.mbt.washington.edu/cool/tools/ptcpaper.html