Congratulations, you are going to have a
baby!..... Well, you are actually going to simulate having a baby.
After this simulation, you should be able to
answer the following questions:
- How many chromosome pairs does each human
parent have?
- How many chromosomes does each parent
"donate" to the next generation?
- Are some genes and gene characteristics
expressed over others.... are dominant and recessive genes
responsible for how a baby looks?
- What is the difference between Genotype and
Phenotype?
- Do some traits require more than one gene
to be fully expressed?
- What are sex-linked traits?
- How is there so much variation in the way
children look even if they come from the same parents?
- What is epistasis?
- What is polygenic inheritance?
Why siblings are very different both in
genotype and phenotype is the question we want to address in this
simulation. This activity should help you answer that question and
stimulate other questions as well.
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