Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Wednesday, April 6, 2010


Today,

We were given the following question to answer:

Think about Harry Potter. Think of Hermione and her family, Ron and his family, and Harry and his family. Create Punett squares for the passing of magic traits.

First, we have tofind what gene is recessive, muggle or magical. We used this evidence:


  • most people are muggles

  • Harry's grandparents and aunt on his mother's side are muggles

  • all of Ron's family is magic.

Since most people are muggle, that means muggles are dominant over magic people. This really solves the whole problems. We know know how to show dominant and recessive traitsw for the family's.


Unfortanetly, I can't show the punett squares but we learnt that Harry Potter's parents are:


Dad- mm


Mom- mm


For Hermione's parents:


Dad- Mm


Mom- Mm


And Ron's Parents:


Dad- mm


Mom- mm


Hope it helps to let you understand recessive and dominant genes!


Mark V. 5th time.

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