Unit 4 Refletion

In class, we recently were assigned a lab called the coin sex lab. In this lab we used a coin to determine different traits of the child. The two sides represented dominant or recessive, mom and dad and more. This lab was based on probability and likelihood. the probability of it landing on heads is 1/2 but the probability of it landing on heads 3 times in a row is 1/8. There is a 50% chance of it landing on heads or tails or being dominant or recessive or boy or girl. My expected results were that it would be 50% chance but didn't turn out that way The outcome turned out to have different percentages.  The limit of using probability to predict our offspring's traits is that in this lab we only flipped a coin 10 times limiting us to our likelihoods. Knowing what we were taught in this lab in showed me how something can go either way. How something has a probability and can never turn out as it seems. It tells me/ shows me what will happen in the future when I have kids and what to expect. When I was born I was born with blonde hair while my dad had brown and my mom has blonde. The recessive trait which was blonde was given to me instead of the dominant alleles.

In this Unit we learned about genetics. Genetics helps define who we are, what we are and why we are this. In genetics we learned about Dominant and recessive, Sexual and asexual reproduction, crosses, traits, gene-linkange and genes, inheritance and more. We also learned about meiosis and mitosis. Some of the themes and understandings of this unit is the cell cycle, and why sex is so great.

My strengths and successes was in this unit was probability's and doing the  Punnett squares finding out the likelihood, probability, and percentage chances. Also I was great at knowing the differences between sexual and asexual reproduction was and what they did. For my weaknesses and setbacks, I got confused on some of the vocabulary in this unit. Also remembering the phases in mitosis and what they do.

From all these experiences we had including the labs and projects and vodcasts... I think the one thing that helped me the most and got my full grasp on this concept was the infographic on "why is sex so great?" From doing the infographic I learned more about the information by researching it and going back into my notes. By doing the infographic we learned everything we did from the vodcast, cfu's, nd notes in one project. We took stuff from our knowledge reliable sources and Mr. Orre's vodcasts to find information on these subjects. The infographic had info on mitosis, meiosis, sexual and asexual reproduction, inheritance, gene linkage etc.

This unit helped me get a better grasp on life and made me a better student helping figuring questions I didn't even know to ask. questions this would have been unanswered if not for this unit.

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using  http://vark-learn.com/the-vark-questionnaire/?p=results I found that...

The VARK Questionnaire

Your VARK Results

Your scores were:

• Visual 3
• Aural 7
• Read/Write 7
• Kinesthetic 4

I was not really surprised by these results. I had an idea that it was going to be this way. Using these ways to help me study on the next test would be helpful. I can draw a diagram and the show information under showing what it is and about.

Dr. Tatiana's sex information to all creation

       There is two kinds of reproduction sexual and asexual. Sexual and asexual are two very different things even though they have the same purpose. Asexual reproduction yields offspring genetically identical to a single parent. In sexual reproduction there are two parents that contribute genetic information that is randomly mixed to produce unique offspring.
       The question we asked was, is sex important? My answer we be yes. Sex is important human and other species survival. for humans if we produced asexually we would only need one parent which would make the baby the same as that parent but if humans produced sexually there would be two parents. When there are two parent, the genes from those parents combine and mix with each other creating another human with similarities like them but no exactly the same.