Genetics 2.0 1/8/17

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Summary:

Genetics are what make up your body and your parent are the people who have an effect on what you look like. Everything is made up of smaller parts. Like smallest to largest - gene,DNA, chromosome,nucleus,cell. Punnet squares are used to see what traits you might be born with. A punnet square is made up of a square divided into 4 parts. A capitol letter would represent a Dominant Trait and a lowercase letter would represent a recessive trait. You use it kind of like a multiplication table. The capitol letter always goes first.

 Dad = 2 recessive

 Mom = 1 dominant 1 recessive

     __s____s_

S |  Ss  |  Ss  |

   |____|____|

 s |  ss   |   ss |

                                               

S&EP:Did you build a model, draw a picture, created a concept map, etc?

yes I did many models the models I used were the punnet squares. We also had to draw many pictures about our superhero and their offspring. We would use to the model to figure out if our superhero offspring would have brown hair, super strength, speed etc.  I had already found the different alleles for both my superhero and supervillan. We drew a picture afterwards to resemble our results from the punnet squares. 

XCC: Cause And Effect 

The cause and effect has a big effect because lets say the mom has a lot of stress while being pregnant. The effect would be a unhealthy baby. If the mom smokes or has alcohol then the child could be born with disabilities and might have a higher chance of getting cancer. Twins. If two eggs get fertilized at the exact same time you have nonidentical twins. But if a egg gets fertilized and splits into 2 you will have identical twins. Identical twins may look very similar at birth and around young ages but as they get older their small differences begin to show a lot.