This week in Biology, we learned about Mendelian Genetics. Mendelian Genetics is based off of the work that Gregor Mendel did in his pea garden. Mendel was a monk who created the basis of what we know about genetics through a perfectly designed experiment he conducted in the pea garden he tended. He created Punnet squares that are used to determine probability when figuring out what traits offspring will obtain. Using our knowledge, we conducted the Genetics With A Smile lab in which we flipped a coin to determine what gene from each parent the offspring would get. The girl smiley face that Olivia and I created had an oval shaped head which is a recessive trait, star shaped eyes which is a dominant trait, and straight hair which is also dominant. Along with those traits she also received a thick smile (dominant), curved ears (dominant), a nose facing down (dominant), a green face (recessive), blue eyes (dominant), long hair (dominant), and freckles were present (dominant). The last two traits were determined with a lack of dominance. She got a yellow nose and teal ear color. These traits were neither dominant or recessive.

A Picture of My Smiley from My Phone