Pachyderm Genetics Lab Report

The meiosis: pachyderm genetics biology lab taught students how to familiarize themselves with dominant traits and recessive traits. With this biology lab students were able to concentrate and learn the difference between the two traits. In addition, from the trait codes of the father and mother, each person was able to produce their very own baby elephant. From the mothers, fathers, and baby’s traits one was able to create a dominant or recessive “expression.” From this one created three figures that represented the mother, father, and baby elephants. The illustration included all of the characteristics of the animals. From the given list of traits for the biology lab, each student created a tetra-hybrid using four autosomal traits. Once that was completed one was able to fill out a 16x16 Punnet square and classify the different genotypes

Some important terms to familiarize each student with was genotype, phenotype, homozygous, and heterozygous. If one did not know the basic knowledge of these words and their roots then the biology lab would have been hard to complete. The pachyderm genetics lab required students to know the difference between dominant and recessive. If a gene was recessive it was denoted by a lower-case letter. Whereas a dominant gene was characterized with a capital letter. Without the help of Gregor Mendel’s discoverer of the pea plant, none of us would have been able to complete the activity. Medal contributed so much work on how genes function and work. Genes are very vital in an organism’s life because it encodes information. Genetics were a major part of the meiosis: pachyderm biology lab. With knowledge obtained from genetics, one was able see why each elephant was different or alike. Genetics is what makes each person different and unique from all others. Like the elephants, our genes determine our hair, eye, skin color, and