Homozygous/heterozygous/genotype/phenotype continued

Todays daily questions:

Here is a video that explains this much of the daily questions:

We went a step further and drew out the punnet square of this cross

We wrapped up this first part of the chapter by predicting genotypes based on phenotypes of some celebrities (this was actualy done yesterday)

Then you worked through some questions on what we have learned so far and moved into an inventory of our own traits.  Keep in mind.... our actual phenotypes are determined by MUCH more complex genetics than just this.  We are just using this as a starting place.  Check out the following link that details these myths.

http://udel.edu/~mcdonald/mythintro.html

 We will continue with that tomorrow after the DQQ