Genetics.

                Have you ever wondered what makes you, you. Lets go back to before you were born. You parents each have traits. Like their hair color, eye color, and other things. All of these traits make up what they look like on the outside. You have inherited these traits from your parents when you where born. If we go awhile back in the 1800 till then nobody knew about genetic. This one man named Gregor Mendel discovered genetics. He found out that genetics made you who you were. Gregor Mendel grew pea plants in his backyard. Now if we studied pea plants we would notice they have different looks. These are because of traits. Traits are notable characteristics. Every gene has two geneotypes or possible traits. Their is a dominant = D  and a recessive trait = d. Possible pairings are DD, Dd or dd. Your parents each have a set of traits. They contain recessive and dominants traits. They pass you half of their traits. That is how you got yours. Lets say your mom has brown hair = h and your dad has Black hair = H. Now you have brown hair. That means you mom had to have a pairing of hh and your dad had Hh so know you have hh. A better way to organize this is a punnet square.


A Punnet square is a way of organizing the genotypes of your parents and showing the possible outcomes of you and your traits.  Lets say your mom had brown and your dad had black hair. You would start by drawing your everyday square.

Then you would split the square into four different parts. 

Then you would fill out the out side of the square by putting your dads Genotypes on the top one above each box and your moms genotypes along the sides one letter next to each box.

Then you would drop down the big H and little h from your dad into the squares below and move the two little h's across into the squares next to it.

And thier you have it those are the possibilities that you will have brown or black hair. The ratio is 2:2 so you have a 50% chance of getting brown and 50% chance of getting black. So basically you get the genes and traits that you have through heredity and your parents. 

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We created punnet graphs to show the animals traits. We also did punnet squares to make the baby bunnies traits and to show the possible out comes and choose which out come we wanted them to have that went with the instructions.

The Charity Fair

                The Charity fair is a group or self project where the class select to work alone or with a partner / group of three. Then the group decides on a charity that matches the topic that they choose that they wanted to learn about. Then each group make a product to sell, ignite presentation, and a tri-fold. Along with doing charity statics and research and a cost and profit and instructable. Then the group is to present their ignite and sell their product to the parents on exhibition night. My group was with Izzy and we choose the ARF, Animal Rescue Foundation as our charity and made hand painted to look like animal print ornaments. Overall it was one of the most fun, exciting, and stressful moments of my life. But overall I loved the experience and finished product.

Backward-looking

               I knew kind of a lot about the subject because I had done it the year before and was used to it. But I did not know a lot about the charity I choose an animal abuse when I first went into the project. I feel like it was a good and balanced amount of learning. Also, I did not know a lot about the impact charities had on the world. I feel like I came out learning a lot yet not having to learn everything.

Inward looking

I feel really good about how my work turned out. I really liked how our ignite turned out especially because Izzy and I messed up big time in our practice round. I really like selling our product and presenting our ignites. I also liked learning about other chosen charities. I didn't like the statistics part though it was not my favorite because it was complicated and stressful trying to memorize the numbers and find them. I really liked the making of the product and how it turned out.

Outward looking

I would give the grade an A because it had all of the components and they were complete. Also because we sold over half of our product and made lots of money. I would give it that grade because the tri-fold had everything that was needed. Also, the project meet all of the criteria. I also think that it should be given an a because we got full credit on almost everything in that project.

Forward Looking

If I was to do the project again I probably would have worked alone. Also I would have made the tri-fold more attractive so that more people could see it. I would set up in the middle of the room not the corner and make sure that everything was done early so I had time to check it. Also I probably would have talked slower on our presentation.