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What does licking bitter tasting paper test for?
« 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?

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What does licking bitter tasting paper test for?
« Reply #1 on: 29/06/2008 03:23:59 »
PTC paper (paper impregnated with phenylthiocarbamide) ...
http://genetics-education-partnership.mbt.washington.edu/cool/tools/ptcpaper.html
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