Max's Amazing Blog of Ultimate Destiny!!!!-November 20th, 2007- 3/3

What We Did Today- We discussed the horrors of (gasp!) of genotype sets that contain more than two alleles, using notes and our Mr. Challoner also went over the penny allele assignment a little bit. That's it really. Kinda short i know. BUt today seemed kinda short. In a short kind of way. Challypoo close your eyes: While we're on the subject, how bout I saw a sight: (no disrespect!) a fat black midget, the coolest thing ever. Not that I have a fetish or anything, it's one of those things that just catch your eye. Power to midgets! With all due respect, it made my week. Well thats all.



































































































































































































































Haha. Got ya, Challypoo!



Thoughts/Opinions On Material:

People were sorta finding this whole multiple allele thing tough. Take for example, the question on page 478, #5. It asks for the Genotypes of the mommy mouse and the daddy mouse. It tells you that they had a great night, and a month later 40 baby mice popped out. 4 of those did not get snuffed by the cat(stupid pussy!). Out of these 4(generalisation) 2 had full color genotypes(D1), 1 had dilute color(what is dilute?- faded, not as colorful as full color, etc.), and one picked up the "DEADLY" homozygous allele(OOOHH!). I find that the best way to solve this is to work backwards, which is faster than dumb old Punnet and his square squares. Both parents have two alleles(for those who really don't get it yet), which are D?D? and D?D?. The order of dominance, from most dominant, to downright recessive, is Full Color(D1) > Dilute Color(D2) > Dead mouse(D3). the dead one is the key to the whole problem. He's the most recessive. To get a homozygous recessive, both parents MUST have the recessive allele. So now the 'rents genotypes are D?D3 and D?D3. The next part is easy. If one baby mouse had Full color(D1) and the other had dilute colouring(D2), then one parent has D2, the other D1. So it looks like this: D1D3 and D2D3. Easy peasy!





Above and Beyond:


Genetics for some is no walk in the park, so here's a site with games that help you understand(hopefully)- http://nature.ca/genome/04/041/041_e.cfm

also a review for that abomination that is the genetics unit test lol: http://www.quia.com/pop/13027.html

Not too shabby, I guess.

Later you hos