It's been a beautiful two days so far!!! A MUCH needed breath of fresh air after a couple rough weeks!!!
Yesterday and Today we worked through an inventory of our traits - here were the daily questions from the past two days:
Here were some of the traits we looked at during our activity.
The BEST was seeing if you can taste the chemical phenylthiocarbamide (PTC)
Here is a little more science behind that.
Please understand, though, that the traits we looked at the past two days are MUCH MORE complex than a simple "Dominant/Recessive" pattern. The following link takes you to an interesting site that explains these common myths of human genetics.
http://udel.edu/~mcdonald/mythintro.html
After finishing up that "Inventory of our traits" activity - I continued on discussing a little about genetic disorders and one of my FAVORITE videos of the year was shown.....
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