Weekly Blog Post - 1|09|17 - 1|15|17 (Genetics and Punnett Squares)

Summary: During this week, I learned that Punnett Squares were a way of determining the types of traits of animate objects (for example - in our Superhero project, we have to assign traits to our "super baby" by using Punnett Squares). I also learned that a heterozygous trait was when there were one of each allele (for example - Rr would be a heterozygous trait).

 SP1 - Asking Scientific/Testable Questions: I asked scientific questions when I was doing my Punnett Squares coin toss (at the end of our packet, we had to do a coin toss and if we got heads then our "super baby" would have a trait that our superhero/mate had. Tails meant that they didn't the trait), such as "Could there be two capital letters for both alleles?" (could there be a genotype of RR?).

 Image Link: Mendel's Pea Flower Punnett Square


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