Weekly blog 1/8/17

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Summary:

        Everything is made up of smaller and smaller parts. Our parents effect what we will look like. The decisions that our parents make while they are pregnant can cause you to be over or under weight, have a higher change of things like cancer and other diseases, etc. The choices that you make after you are born can effect things like your health too. Punnet squares can help figure out what someones bay's DNA is and can help figure out what they look like. To have a recessive trait you have to have two recessive genes one from each parent. Each parent gives their child one copy of two of their genes. Heterozygous is when you have two different alleles and you would be a hybrid. Homozygous is when you have two of the same alleles and you would be a purebred.

S&EP:Did you build a model, draw a picture, created a concept map, etc?:

        I drew lots of small models of punnet squares to show what the off spring out our super hero and our villain would make. We uses the models to see what color hair our child would look like, for example their hair color and their skin color etc. We already found the DNA or alleles of our super hero and villain but we were seeing what they would look like. We also found how healthy they would be bases on a coin flip we saw the choices of our super hero and how they effected the child. I drew what I thought our child of our super hero and our super villain. I drew lots of stuff for the super hero project like the punnet square and the drawing our our child. 

XCC: Cause and effect

There are many factors that relate to what peoples child or children would look like. The alleles the the parents give to the child will affect what the child will look like. If the mother does things like eats too much and eats unhealthy it can cause the baby to be born unhealthy. If the mom has lots of stress when the child is born it can be born unhealthy as well. If the mom smoked or had alcohol the child could be born with disabilities and can have a higher chance of cancer because it goes through their blood stream. If two eggs are fertilized at the same time you will have fraternal twins or nonidentical twins. if and egg gets fertilized and splits you will have identical wins because they will have the same DNA but as they get older their choices can effect what they look like and what diseases they get. If the egg only gets partly split you will have twins that are stuck to each other or have two heads, etc.