Fifty years ago, on Saturday, Feb. 28, 1953, two young scientists, Watson and Crick, announced to the lunchtime crowd that they had discovered the secret of life.
There is a site of the University of Bern with some real good quicktime movies, showing, how one can get a DNA [2] and yet another DNA workshop [3].
[1] http://www.nytimes.com/indexes/2003/02/25/health/genetics/index.html
[2] http://www.aum.iawf.unibe.ch/vlz/BWL/Gen_Kurs/Gen_Kurs/
[3] http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/tryit/dna/