genetic variety

hello ladies and gents! well this is the last part of my project i have to do so lets hope i do OK because i think so far i have done pretty good on everything else (i hope i didnt just jinx myself!) so i will talk about genetic variety in the reebops. here we go, cross your fingers that i dont do this totally wrong!

disclaimer: i did read cake's blog before writing this just to clear up some confusion so if you notice similarities i am trying very hard not to copy but at the same time i cant help it if SOME info is the same. i am NOT just rewriting her blog though, i am seriously not cheating off her blog and there is even a link to her blog somewhere down there sooo thats all...just wanted to mention that so i wasnt accused of copying.

OK so what genetic variety basically means (i think) is like how when we were finished creating all the reebops how each family was different because of all the different colored chromosomes we had. Like, i guess mine isnt a very good example because my family was very small because of how i mated it but oh well, i started out as a purple with a blue star and mated with a pink bug so the offspring's chromosomes were half purple* and half pink. then the purple* and pink bug mated with a bug whos chromosomes were orange and pink w/ purple polka dots, so the next bug had chromosmes that were purple*, pink, •pink•, and orange. so that is the variety, all the many colors.
OK i got this definition from cake's blog who got it from the msn encarta dictionary and its probably better than everything i just said. OK these are the defintions i found there.

1) specific type: a specific type or kind within a general group

2) collection of varied things: a collection of varied things, often belonging to the same general group


so yeah i know they both mean basically the same thing but having both it just kind of made more sense to me :) so i now see that what this means is that it is variation within a group of things that are all the same. like, they are all reebops BUT within a group that is entirely reebops there are different variations or kinds. like one of my reebops is yellow with red eyes black spots long spiked legs curved and feathered antena and wings. and although it is a reebop just like everyone elses someone else could have one that is brown with short legs and no dots and black eyes so they are all varied. and their chromosomes in the end will be different colors than mine so that is also varied. so in case i havent said it enough times the genetic variety is when you get the chromosomes from each parent (theres your genotype) and it is different, or varied from others genotypes, making every reebop look different at least a little bit.


OK lets get some pictures in here! here is some genetic variety for you:

i have blue eyes , my mom has brown , my dad has blue my sisters dad has brown., my sis has green. so my moms trait was not passed on to either of her kids, but my dads trait was passed on to me.

now my grandpa on moms side has blue eyes too so that trait could have skipped a generation, and my grandma on my stepdads side has green eyes like my sis to that trait could have skipped a generation too. so the question is how can + = while
+= so say that my families chromosomes were all nice and color coded, we would probably look something like this:



Grandpa (moms side)= bb grandma (moms side)=BB


mom= Bb dad= bb stepdad=gB


kelsey(me!)= bb madelyn(sister)= gg


i really hope that there makes sense. it probably would make more sense of i knew what my stepgrandpa, and granparents on my dads side looked like but i dont so thats just too bad. and i figured what all the dominant and ressecive traits were just by knowing what chromosmes each person had to have and their phenotype (physical appearance) so it wasnt too hard. im also not sure that you can have co-recessive traits but since no one in my family has blue and brown eyes i dont think it can be any other way.

i really dont think this this blog turned out to good but i gave it my best shot and i promise next time i need pictures for something i will draw them myself ;)


i hope you didnt hate this post and i have to go and read some good old john tremain for social studies so fair well!

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RAWR

hello blog peeplz.....yeah so surprise!~ we have a test coming up!!! :O its on thursday and its on everything weve done for the genetics unit. Soooooo this SHOULD be a relatively short post cuz obviously i wan to work on my project. So this week in science class we got our project and we worked on it at home and in class. we made wiki pages which i hope i did right cuz i am terrible with computers!!! D: and we made some rebop (the name of our pretty little bugs) sperm and egg cells. can i just say i have made what are probably some of the prettiest sex cells I've ever seen? ^_^ lol. so yeah we also have to make a smart notebook video about punnett squares, which was fun cuz we got to wear those microphone things but also annoying bcuz I hate the sound of my own voice like, alot. but yeah. were doing a 1 to 2 page essay on meosis and mitosis and how they relate to the whole reebop thing. that is the main thing im NOT looking forward to because meosis and mitosis were the hardest for me...and we also have to do a blog entry on how genetic variety plays an important role in your reebop family. sooo yeah its pretty intense. and its due tuesday i believe. ^ ^ plz correct me if im wrong cuuuuuuz when doing a project its kinda important to know exactly when its due you know? yeah.all i have left to do is the blog and the report thingy. applause applause. so if anyone cares my genetic disease was tay sachs and i made the wiki and you can just click if you want to see it :) sorry this was so short and LAME but i havelots of work to do! hug hug hug! bi bi!!!

dihybrid cross B^P

heeeeey so yeah this post is probably gonna be pretty short cuuuuuz i dont have much to say...yeah i no i say that alot but i think this time im actually right. sooooo yeah. so we have been doing genetics and all still but we started out this new thing its like a punnett square but its like huge! it is called a dyhibrid cross i belive. i also belive i spelled that terribly wrong. so anyway at first i didnt get them like at all but i guess for this entry ill just explain that :) s0 its pretty much used to determine the likelyhood for traits like a punnet square except this is for 2 traits rather than just one. hence the word "di". so what you do is instead of putting one letter or gene in each spot you put one pair. so say you were trying to determine the chances of a kid with blonde hair and blue eyes (hey thats me!) :) so lets say the blond is recessive and blue eyes are dominant. the mom will be heterozygous for hair (well say thats Bb) and has brown eyes so lets saaaaaay ee. and daddy has blonde hair bb and and heterozygous blue eyes Ee. so a dihybrid croos looks like this obviously:

this one is filled in with some random genetic code but i thought it was a good example of what pretty much looks like. plus its color coded so yippee :)

so obviously the genotypes on the most outer edge of the picture are the genotypes the two parents and the the pairs in the circle are the different pairs that they can offer to their child. i cant remember the for it for some reason though so sorryz!
the genotypes in the boxes are all the possible genotypes for their children.
so wat you would do in our blondie stuation is first figure out the different combinations of genes each parent can offer. so since mom is Bb ee she can offer Be Be be & be OK so you put one pair to eache outer space just like in the picture except with finley you get boxes rather than circles to put them in. so you put a pair rather than just one letter like in a punnett square.
OK now the dad is bb eE so the different genotypes he can give are be be bE & bE. so put that on the other side of the dihybrid cross.
Now to determine the child just like a punnett square you do it like a graph and combine the genotypes in the boxes and record the result in the box where those match up (if that makes sense the way i said it....) so at first i though you just choose the dominant triat and put that in the box so you get a pair of two but actually you do like this, rather than tell ill just show you cuuuz im not good with directions most of the time :) ill use two of genotypes i just said there could be as an example:

bE+Be=bB Ee and you do that for all of them and you can see the genetic code for the kids nad see what they would look like--aka the phenotype :o sooo yeah there you go.

and that is my summary of the dihybrid cross :) sorry this post kinda stunk :P but watevs hughughug!

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blogblogblog

heeeeeeey soooooooo im actually doing this instead of watching diary of a mad black woman so i hope at least one person actually reads this (-_-) hahaha jk, i mean i am missing it but i enjoy the computer and i also have to do some SS so its cool ;) anywhoo... onto the science!!! O:

we are talking about traits. still. traits. in science class.

its actually OK bcuz i do get it :) i mean not that i usually dont get stuff im just better at some things than i am at others. and this im alright at :) :) :)
so we have been doing this little trait thingy :) (hm, lots of smileys in this post :) )
i may have already talked about it im not sure but ill talk anyway :) my partner was dear sweet maggie. so we recorded our different traits which were: tongue rolling, widows peak (lily!!!) dimples earlobe attachment mid digit finger hair PTC taster ( i hate you PTC taster!!! go burn!!!) and cleft chin. aaaand we kinda just forgot about the hitch hikers thumb thing...i havve one and its kinda creepy O.O anywayz...we recorded our results (i hope you dont expect me to remember them.) and we put the whole classes results in excel which shockingly i knew how to do (im NOT good with computers!) and then made that into a graph (ours was pretty!) and we decided which we thought were dominant traits and which we thought were recessive traits. THEN we looked at a graph of the whole grade (well...the part of teh grade that has finley anyway, the COOL half!!! P: ) and compared it to the graph of the class and for period 2 science class they were relatively similar. some did changed a substantial amount but most didnt change all that much. as i just said. how repetive.

my printer just had a spazm!!!!
sorry random, but true it just spazzed out O.O

anyway
we had a good old time with that. so the other thing we did was in our tables we made some sperm and egg cells (mine were pretty!) and gave each a gene, mine was artisticness you see, and made punnet squares to predict the outcome. we put the sperms and eggs taht matched the genetypes we wrote down and pulled our random pairs to see if what we got matched our squares. yeah...you know what you did. we actually wrote it down in our note books too and this is what i wrote:

we put 2 eggs and two sperm of the same trait to represent each parent's genotype, then pull out the eggs and sperm in one by one in pairs of one egg & one sperm and recoreded the results, which would be the childrens genotype, and then did it again.

here is what my group of me (obviously), maggie, zeke, and micheal D.

micheal i am so sorry but i cant spell your first name.

so anyway maggies trait was green eyes which we said was a resecive trait and we made a punnet square that was this>>>

dad=gg mom=Gg children= Gg Gg gg gg

and when we did the experiment we got those results.

how magical.

then Micheals trait was height, as in tall, which he said was dominant and we made a punett square that looked like this>>> dad= AA mom=aa children=aA aA aA aA
and when we did the experiment we got that. ^^^^

Zekes trait was Athleticness (i realize this is not a word but that is just something you will have to deal with) he said it was Dominant. (guess i managed to be homozygous recessive ,THE MOST UNLIKELY GENOTYPE!!! RAWR!) we made a punnett square that told us this information>>>> dad=AA mom= aA children= aA aA AA AA
and when we did this experiment we got that.

and as i said my trait was artisticness (also not a word) a said it was a recessive trait and we made a square that said this>>> dad=aA mom=aA children=Aa AA aa aA and when we did the experiment we got that to which made me think that the punnett square was a nice accurate little thing and we wrote a cinclusion on it which is in the other post.

so also we did another spongebob sheet among other things wich i would go over but going over that stuff actually does take like forever and we already did go over it in class so....yeah...

well that is all i have to say about the wonderful world of science for today!!!
Jason Mraz is awesome!!!
aaand go look up "the call" by regina spektor bcuz that is one AWEOSME song! :P :P :) :) soooo yeah.
hughughug!

see you all tomorrow!

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conclusion

here be my conclusion for science about the punnett squares..........you enjoy it......

The punnet square, according to this experiment, does work because all the results were what the punnett square predicted, so even though when we tried to make a punnet square to represent the family on little people big world (love that show!) and it didn't work i think the punnet square does work and there are just some special cases where it gets messed up.

yeah i know that was really short i really dont have much else to say about that.....im gonna do my blog entry now.....go read it when im done.

T_T

behold the punnett square...yippee

hello friends. im not even sure if we have to blog this week but im gonna cuz maybe we do i dont want to have a missing assighnment weighing down my grade. I wish this blog was worth more than like 2 points!!! D: wh watever gets on to the science!!! sooooooooo first things first I want to apologize for an error in my pea blog, it doesnt matter if you choose the top dot or the bottom dot in the pea breeder thing, i thought it did so i was telling you which i chose but i found out in class it doesnt matter. ^ ^ anywhoo...i believe we did punnet squares and what not this fine week, soooo i'll start with the glorious square. weeeeee. SO its a lidl like lattice in a way (math people???) it is a square set up like when you draw a window on cruddy picture of a house: and then u list one chromosome pair (chromosome??? i think...) on top (like so ^) and then on the side. then you just match up the letter and put them in the square, like plotting points on a coordinate graph. eh-you get the point...
sooooo we did a real thrilling punnet square activity, wooooooo. we traced a traced a trait througth 3 generations of our fam and ill show you mine! :D yippee. uuuum mine was kinda screwy i think just so you know cuz of how my family is, as in i couldnt do one that showed me and my sister cuz we have diferent fathers, and i couldnt trace back my dads side of the family bcuz ive never met them, and obiously I couldnt just do my stepdads side of the fam cuz were not blood realated, so i did me, my moms parents, then my cousins on my moms side for the gemerations. wow you really didnt need the whole explaination did you??? (you: no Kelsey u stink!!! D:< ) im sorry! anyway, here are my results. i traced height and said tall was the dominant trait bcuz they are more tall people in the fam.

dad: TT mom: Tt = TT TT Tt Tt orange=me

pop: TT gram: tt = tT TT tT TT purple=mom red=uncle rich blue=aunt beth

uncle rich: tT aunt michelle: tt = tT tT tT tt pink=cuzin brad orange= cuzin jess

so i had to make e few assumptions bout homozygous and heterozygous to make it work but there you go. i really hope that made sense to you guys! they way i set it up is kinda confuzzling nad it will be even worse if stupid blogger goes and disorts it!!! D:< style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">QUESTION ONE!!! RAWR!!! for each genotype (vocab!) below indicate wether it is a homozygous (Ho) or heterozygous (he)

TT ho Bb He DD ho Ff he tt ho dd ho Dd he ff ho Tt he bb ho BB ho FF ho

*genotype- genetic code
*phenotype- physical appearance

which genotypes would be considered purebred? Homozygous ones because they have all the same genes

which would be considered hybrids? the heterozygous ones bcuz they have a mix of genes, some are just hidden.

Question 2!!! Determine teh phenotype using the info provided about spongebob

Yellow body color is dominant to blue

YY yellow Yy yellow yy blue

Square shape is dominant to round
SS square Ss square ss round

3!!!!! For each phenotype, give the genotypes that are possible for Patrick.

A tall (T) head is Dominant to short (t)

Tall= TT Tt Short= tt

Pink body color (P) is dominant to yellow (p)

PInk= PP Pp yellow= pp

4! Spongebob Squarepants recently met SpongeSusie Roundpants at a dance. Spongbob is heterozygous for his square shape but spongesusie is round. create a punnet square to show the possibilites if they had kids.

(So this means that she is homozygous.) i cant do the punnet square but ill tell you what i got.

A. List the possible genotypes and phenotypes for their children.

sS sS ss ss square, round.

B. What are the chances of a kid w/ a square shape?

2 out of 4 or 50%

C what are the chances of a kid with a round shape?
2 out of 4 or 50%

Patrick met patti @ the dance. both are heterozygous for their pink color, which is dominant over yellow. (im skipping the punnet square thing)

A. list possible genotypes and phenotypes for their children

PP Pp Pp pp pink yellow

B. what are the chances of a pink kid?

3 out of 4 or 75%

C. what are the chances of a yellow kid?

1 out of 4 or 25%

6. everyone in squidwards family has blue skin which is the dominant trait. His fam brags that they are purebred. He recently married a nice girl who has green skin which is the recessive trait. (skipping punnet square)

A. list possible genotypes and phenotypes for their kids.

bB bB bB bB green blue

B. what are the chances for a blue kid? 100%

C. What are the chances of a green kid? 0%

D. would squidwards kids still be considered purebred? explain!

no, because they would heterozygous, so there would still be a green gene in them, it just wouldnt show.

7. Assume that one of squidwards sons who is heterozygoud for his light blue color married a grl who was also heterozygous.

A. list possible genotypes and phenotypes for their children

bB bb BB Bb green blue

What are the chances of a kid w/ blue skin?

75%

what are the chances of a kid with green skin?

25%

Last question!!! this is hard to do without showing you the punnett square but the possible geno and phenotypes for their children are TT TT Tt Tt and they could only be tall so the hospital did make a mistake bcuz all the genotypes have @ least one dominant gene in them and tall eyeballs r dominant.

THE END!!! soooooooooooo that would be all. i have quite a bit of social studies to do so ive go to go!!!! hughughug!

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