week of February 9-13

This week we finalized meiosis and mitosis which I explained the process in my last blog. this week we started with genetics. On the computer we had asimulation that explained what happens with genetics when reproduction happens.
There was a monk who set the way we think about genetics. His name was Gregor Mendel. He did this by breeding his plants and using the theory that all living organisms inherit things from their parents. Each gene is called an allele. A plant with two alleles is called a homozygote. A plant with two different alleles is called a heterozygote. Also an offspring of two pink plants can have a white plant if both of the parents are heterozygote and both of the parent's white flower traits are passed down to the plant.