Hydrophilic means that it likes water so it will easily break down in water
hydrophobic will do the opposite and repel water
Yes. You could do this by adding solvents to break down any cell walls, centrifuge to separate the DNA, if you haven't got much then upscale with PCR, gel electrophoresis could be used to detect the DNA, and Sanger sequencing to find the sequence.
A monhybrid cross is the inheritance of a single character and dihybrid cross is the inheritance of two difference character.