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What does licking bitter tasting paper test for?
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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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PTC paper (paper impregnated with phenylthiocarbamide) ...
http://genetics-education-partnership.mbt.washington.edu/cool/tools/ptcpaper.html
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