Reebops project

GENETIC VARIETY

Genetic variation is a good thing because it makes all animals different. This is because they get some genes from their mom and some genes from their dad. If the child only got the genes from one partent then the parent and the child would look exactly alike.

This is one of the reasons there is crossing over in the during the process of meiosis. This is when one of chromotid crosses ove to another chromosome. They also switch the chromotid with another chromotid.

When we made our Reebops, each generation of Reebops added a few new colors. This is because the new generation is made up of the mom's genes and the dad's gene. Then when a new generation of Reebops come they have their parents genes who have their parents genes etc.

if i could go back in time and tell my self about dihybrid crosses i would say that you use it for when you want to use it for more then one trait. for example you would use it for color and shape. this would make it easier then making 2 punnet squares. one for shape and one for color. this way you can determine what the chance is to have yellow skin with a square shape,etc. lastly it has to do with the parents genotype.

you might want to use this when you need to have multiple traits determined. for example, the possiblity that your child is going to have blonde hair and blue eyes or brown hair brown eyes.