April 5

First, Mr. Finley came around to check our homework.  It was on watching the video about Punnett Squares.  Just so you know, if you didnt try making the squares, you should go back and do them. Today we began tallking about out genotypes.

Homework
YY->yellow                 SS->squarey
Y->yellow                    sS->square
yy->blue                       ss->round

Tall-TT, Tt                    Short-tt

Pink body-PP, Pp
Yellow body-pp
             
The Punnett Square (Spongebob)       

Ss	Ss
ss	ss

B. 2 out of 4 or 50%
C. 2 out of 4 or 50%

*Punnett Squares indicate nothing more than the CHANCES for 1 child!*

Homo->same
Hetero->different
Homozygous->CC, cc
Heteronzygous->Cc
Homozygous domaint->CC
Homozygous recessive->cc

Here is the link the the Pea Soup! experiment we have been working with!

Erica Wirth (5th blog)