This week I learned about Mendelian Genetics. Gregor Mendel was a monk who studied genetics by using pea plants. He used punnett squares to figure out which traits the offspring of two "parents' would have. This week, I learned about dominant and recessive traits, as well as homogeneous and heterogeneous. I learned that genotype is the collection of genes and alleles in an organism, and a phenotype is the observable characteristics of an organisms. I also learned how to do monohybrid and dihybrid crosses. They were pretty difficult. On thursday, Anna and I created a "child". We had to use dominant and recessive traits to determine the genotype and phenotype of our "child". Our child's phenotypes were oval face, star eyes, straight hair, thick smile, curved ears, downward nose, green skin, blue eyes, long hair, freckles, yellow nose, and teal ears.
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| Our "Child" |
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