Kia Ora edu bloggers. Today, I will be writing about Genetics
Aim: The aim of this activity was to learn how traits are passed from parents to offspring using genes and alleles
Method: We chose two parents, each parent had two alleles for each trait
What Were The Different Alleles? Each trait had two alleles. One was a dominant Capital Letter for each trait
How Did You Decide What Traits Your Zombie Had? The Teacher told us to pick out random alleles
Results Sadly we threw our one in the bin.
Disccusion
Gene: A part of DNA that controls a trait. Allele: The different forms of a gene
Genotype: The letters that show the alleles(like TT or Tt)
PhenoTyp:e The trait that you can see (like tall or short)
How did you fill out Punnett squares? You put on parents’ alleles on the top and the other on the side, then you combine them in the boxes
What’s the Point? Punnet squares help predict what traits might have
Conclusion,
Yes the activity. It helped us understand how traits are passed. Next time, I would try different parent alleles