Week 2 Reflection

A photo taken by me from my phone

Our "child" got her traits by my partner and I flipping a coin to get our genotype.
(A photo taken by me from my phone)

This week I learned about genetics. I learned new vocabulary such as genotype, and phenotype. Genotype is the collection of genes (and alleles) in an organism. It's also the genetic items you cannot see. Phenotype is the observable properties of an organism. It is the observable physical characteristics. I learned about recessive, and dominant traits, along with heterozygous, and homozygous traits. I learned how to do monohybrid crosses, and dihybrid crosses. This week I learned about incomplete dominance, and codominance. In a lab, my partner, Mea and I, made a "child" using traits and characteristics involving our homozygous dominant, heterozygous, and homozygous recessive traits to create our genotype for the "child." After the genotypes were created, we found the phenotypes of our child, creating a physical appearance for it. We ended up with a female child, that displayed all of the traits we created. The traits our child displayed were a circular face shape, red, star eyes, straight, short hair, a thin smile, hot pink, pointed ears, a orange, down nose, a yellow colored face, and freckles.