Project Blog

My Reebops demonstrate a genetic variety by all the different features they have. My P1 started off with the phenotype that was light green skin, short legs, dots, a horn, wings, feathered antennaes, and black eyes. It genotype is HH, ll, rr, GG, DD, WW, FF, and XX. Once that bug mated with another one it created HH, LI, Rr, Gx, DD, WW, FF, XX. That's the genotype. The phenotype for the F1 is a horn, light green skin, long legs, dots, wings, feathered antennaes, and red eyes. Then, we mated that bug and as a genotype I got HH, Ll, RR, Gx, DD, WW, FC, and Yx. This means that it has a stinger, light green skin, long legs, dots, wings, feathered antennaes, and red eyes. That is my F2 bug. Now, my F3 bug is HH, Ll, Rr, xx, DD, Ww, FF, Xx. This means that this bug has a horn, yellow skin, dots, wings, long legs, feathered antennaes, and red eyes.
By having all these different things about each bug it helps identify the bugs. Some of them could have the littlest thing different but it means a lot. That is where the genetic variety comes and help. Each bug has to have one or two things alike to be related.

The punnet square is very helpful in finding what would be traits. It was very easy to see what was dominate and non-dominate. If it was a uppercase letter it was dominate and if it was lowercase it was non-dominate. In our classes we are making bugs and we have to make punnet squares to find out what traits we have. If you listen in classes it's easier to learn what you need to do for each punnet squares. The picture above is a punnet square showing you how letters are placed.

Mitosis and Meiosis

The difference between mitosis and meiosis is that meiosis had 50% of chromosomes and mitosis had 100% of chromosomes. These two things have similar steps. The steps are: ProphaseI, MetaphaseI, AnaphaseI, TelaphaseI, ProphaseII, MetaphaseII, AnaphaseII, and TelaphaseII. That is meiosis and the cell that is created is diploid cell. The steps for mitosis is Prophase, Metaphase, Anaphase, and Telaphase. The cell that is created here is a haploid cell. A reason so having 50% chromosomes in meiosis because the need room for egg chromosomes. Also some of the steps are a little different. The chromosomes cross over so there will be 50, 50 on each side. If not something could possibly go wrong in the steps. You also have a gene in your body. Half of it is from your father and the other half is from your mother. That's how you look like your parents or you could just look like one of them. This happens because there is more DNA in the chromosome of one of your parents than the other.

Science Blog

This week in science we started a new unit called reproduction. We talk about what it is and how it is related to human and cell reproduction. We discussed a lot about the subject. We talked about how how those two are related and sex vs. reproduction. We also talked about when when a cell reproduces by splitting apart. And what problems could come from that.

I learned these ideas by listening in classes, group discussions, class discussions. Most of the information you get from listening in classes. That is a big part of what you do to get the information. I think that if you don't listen in class then you won't understand anything else.

This information is important because anything could happen in the world. Like a big thing happens that has to do with this subject. Or if you decide to become something that has to do with what we are talking about in class. Or you would just to need to know these types of things for what life has to offer in the future.