Unit 4 reflectoin

Unit 4 reflection

This unit was about the basis of genetics, how Mendel discovered it and how it works in us and in sex. My strengths were meiosis and mitosis and what the steps are and how important they are. My weaknesses were the dihybrids and how to use them in punnett squares to predict how the offspring will look like. I learned a lot about genetics which lets me understand why i have the genes and traits I have. I learned a lot by doing the genetics inforgraphic, because the infographic sums up the all the important information, which helped me learn almost everything about genetics. I want to learn more about dihybrid cross and how it works.

For the Vark questionnaire, i got that I am more of a Kinesthetic and visual learner which is what I agree with. I always look at diagrams and remember more of visual information, and i like to study with diagrams, and trial and error. And i should do this when i study for my test.

• Visual 7
• Aural 4
• Read/Write 4
• Kinesthetic 12

Coin sex lab

Coin sex lab

In this lab we used punnett squares to determine the probability of how traits, genes, and alleles will affect or show how a offspring will look like. When the coins were flipped it simulated meiosis or gene segregation and showed recombination between heterozygous and homozygous alleles. In our dihybrid and monohybrid cross simulation the number of individuals that we predicted had the phenotype was one off from what we actually got. We can always use things like punnett squares to predict how our offsprings will look like but it's always a probability, it never gives you the outcome. By knowing things like X-linked and autosomal inheritance, and many more things about genetics, I can understand why i got the genes i got, and how rare or not rare they are.  

Genetics Infographic