Week 2 Reflection

      For the week of 1/13- 1/17, I learned about Mendelian Genetics. I learned new vocabulary, and how to do monohybrid crosses. I learned about genotypes(a collection of genes(and alleles) in an organism) and phenotypes(observable properties of an organism). In a lab I did on Thursday with my partner, Rachel, we used traits and created our own "child". Using homozygous dominant, heterozygous, and homozygous recessive we create our genotype's for the "child". After the genotypes were created we found the different traits that were displayed in the "child's" face. We then found the gender of the child and found out that it was a girl. We then drew a picture based off of the traits displayed.

 

 Our "child" has specific phenotypes specific to her. We got our traits by flipping a coin to get our genotype. We then drew her and colored her the colors chosen by the genotypes. And then the directions said if female draw a pink bow on her head. So we ended up with the picture above ^.We decided to name her Brooke.











Then we found the probability of getting the phenotypes as well as
how many recessive and dominant homozygous ones there were.
We had 4 recessive and 8 dominant.