Paper Pet Family Portrait

      Today is Science Solutions Tuesday. In this blog, I will be blogging about the Paper Pet Family Portrait that we did in my Science class. The Paper Pet Family portrait has something to do with geneotypes and genetics. A genotype is a trait that you inherit from your family, so in this portrait, we made pets that have somewhat the same characteristics from their parents. Lets say if the father has pointed eyes and the mother has round eyes, what would their offspring have round or pointed eyes? To figure that out, you need to make a punnent square. For this activity, we found out the mother and fathers genotype. An example of a genotype is Bb, bb, or BB. When we find out their genotypes, we have to put the mother's and father's genotypes in a punnent square. For example, if the father had BB pointed eyes and the mother has bb round eyes, then when you put the genotypes in a punnent square, the possibility of their offspring having pointed eyes would be 100%, because all of their children would be heterozygous. So once we found out what that offspring would have, we would draw pointed eyes on the child. We would do different characteristics for each one,such as: eyes, hair, teeth and nose. Once we would find and draw their characteristics on the child, we would paste on the children and their parents on a paper, and there you go, there is a beautiful portrait of the family.

This helped me learn genotypes more, because I actually visualize this concept. Physically visualizing math, science, history, or any lesson can help you  understand more. Please check out my science page under the heading titled "My Classes". There you will find more information and you will see a picture on how this really looks like. I hope you learned something new today.