Thursday, February 10, 2011

The Science Lab

There are many a fish in a lake or a, but the question is what happens to them. To science we are doing a lab that talk about the way the fish reproduce. The lab starts with 8 toothpicks with three different alleles, yellow, red, green. Yellow and red are recessive to green and combined equal orange. Each fish has two alleles one from the father and one from the mother. The first generation I picked 6 green fish1 red and 5 orange. The second generation was the same thing. The third had a change in the pattern, there are 3 yellow, 5 green, 3 red and 0 orange. This terrible because this was all of yellow fish died because of the non-camouflage. As a result only nine fishes were left. The fourth generation was terrible because a company and spilled toxic waste in to the pond/lake that the algae had died therefore showing all of the rock and the green fish have no camouflage. Only leaving the red and yellow and orange left and the green alleles were wiped-out.

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            If I had changed the lab I little bit it would be about the alleles for the fish that started, such as I would have co-dominant alleles instead of having incomplete dominant three alleles. Also I would have change the color yellow to a darker color to blend in with the dark lake below it. With the change I have made with the colors changing to blue, red, and green, blue and red could have made a purple or a blue top and a red bottom, much like a penguin. Next change would be to have two dominant alleles instead of one. The two dominant would have made it harder for the recessive and the dominant would have to fight it out to see which one had to be shown. In conclusion those are the change I would make to the fish project.

Wednesday, February 9, 2011

The Amazing Science Class

In my Science class we have been learning about alleles and incomplete dominance and co-dominance. Even though they sound the same they are totally different thing. Co-dominance the alleles keep fighting to be shown. Let’s say the alleles are white and red. The possibility can be red with white Polk-a-dots. Incomplete dominance is if red and white are alleles than it would be pink because the alleles are like compromising. It’s hard to understand but, after I while it is easier to understand. Also we are doing lab that is all about fish and offspring alleles. The project is in pairs and very fun, but we have to write 2 paragraphs. I love the class and don’t have any negative comment and the monster project is extremely fun. I feel a great joy going to my science class and always going to the class.