Traits Pedigrees Punnett Squares Juanya Simmons Traits are

Traits, Pedigrees & Punnett Squares Juan’ya Simmons

Traits are characteristics you get from your parents for example eye color. Eye color is a recessive trait, so if you dad has brown eyes and your mom has hazel eyes there’s a possibility you can have hazel eyes. You can see when you have hazel eyes around the pupil is brown and the rest is green.

Trait part 2 � Another example of another trait is a widows peak. It can be recessive or not, widows peak is a point or a v shape on the center of your head. The way you would get a widows peak is by a parent having one, The trait would have to be an a dominant trait to have a widows peak.

Pedigree

Pedigree

Punnett Square Gender X Y X XX XY YY A Monohybrid square is based in genetics, a type of grid used to show the gametes of each parent and their possible offspring; a type of grid that can indicate all the possible results of a genetic cross *XX stands for Female and XY stands for Male You will have 25 % or chance of having a girl and 50% of having a boy. Hair Type BB BB bb Bb. BB Bb. Bb bb Bb. Bb The following example illustrates a Dihybrid cross between two heterozygous hair color. B represents the dominant allele for color (brown), and BB represents the stands for dark brown. bb represents the dominant allele for color (brown).