Millipede and Earthworm Dissection

Extracting the DNA from earthworms only requires a piece of small body tissue. Plus, the internal organs of earthworms contain a lot of soil and other impurities. Thus, before we do the DNA extraction, we have to dissect the earthworm and clean all the unwanted internal organs.

We can follow the following video and picture for the steps introducing the way of cleaning the earthworms’ internal organs.

The way to dissect and clean the internal organs of an earthworm
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