Punnet Squares/ Genes
I have a question for the person reading this. “Why is diarrhea hereditary? Because it runs through our jeans !” I know that joke is disgusting but it is true. All of us as humans have genes that are passed down from our parents that make u p our physical traits. The type of genes I am talking about is not the ones you can buy at American Eagle, those are JEANS. According to the Webster Dictionary, the gene I am talking about is “a unit of heredity which is transferred from a parent to offspring and is held to determine some characteristics of the offsprings.” So how exactly how does this happen? Well people usually have two copies of chromosomes (thread like structure made or proteins and a single molecule). One copy is inherited from your mother by her egg. The other copy is inherited by your father by his sperm. A sperm and an egg each contain one set of 23 chromosomes. When the egg is fertilized by the sperm, two copies of each chromosome are present, creating...