Traits and Heredity

As always science class was fun with lots of learning involved! We started out the week with a worksheet that showed us how traits were passed from parent to offspring. We found out what our class traits were and we made a graph of our class traits and posted for others to observe. I learned about genetic traits and what traits are most common in our class. The most common trait in our class was being right handed. We followed with an experiment that showed us one example of DNA. This DNA was the DNA of wheat germ. I was able to see the DNA of the wheat germ and it looked like little white strings. I also learned how to do a Punnett square. We were given examples on a worksheet of how genes were passed from parent to offspring and the chances of each trait showing up in the offspring. On Friday, I created my own potato baby. I calculated what the potato baby would like by pulling letters out of jars to complete the Punnett square. I rolled the dice to determine the traits of the potato offspring. Some traits were lots of hair, medium mouth, small eyes, yellow dorsal fin and small feet.
I definitely improved on how I completed the Punnett square. I improved on how I crossed the letters in the Punnett square. Other ways in which I can improve is knowing the definitions of words such as homozygous and heterozygous; pure bred and hybrid before doing my labs. By improving on my knowledge of definitions in the chapter, I will be able to understand the chapter and labs more clearly.
I went to the Khan Academy website and did the punnett square fun activities. It was very interesting. The link is below.
http://www.khanacademy.org/science/biology/heredity-and-genetics/v/punnett-square-fun

I have also attached pictures of my DNA model project.