Hi everyone! Today we will be telling you about our Wonder inspired monsters that we created to learn about the inheritance of genes. We hope you enjoy this blog!
What Inspired our Interest in Inheritance
We are reading a book called Wonder. In the book there is a boy called August who has a defective gene passed down from his parents which means he has Treacher Collins Syndrome. We were interested in how August inherited the gene from his parents even though his parents don’t have Treacher Collins Syndrome, so Miss McLaughlin organised a science lesson on it.
The Task
Our task was to create a monster by flipping a counter to decide what genes the monster inherits from its parents . The counter decided on the skin colour, the horns, the teeth, the claws and a lot of different things. The picture below shows some of our genetically modified monsters. See if you can match up the drawings with the phenotypes (the observable trait).
What we Learned
We learned how to use punnett squares to describe how the genes are passed down and the chances of you getting the syndrome or carrying the gene. We learned that everyone carries a pair of genes (not the trousers) and some genes are recessive and some are dominant.
We hope you liked our blog bye!
