Science Class Week of 3/02/09

Welcome one and all to LMAX's funtabulous science circus review. Step right up!!! And let the beautiful world of science astound u!!!!!

First up on our spectacular schedule:

This week we did more work on genetics, traits, punnet squares, and had a take home quiz.=)

Monday- YEAH NO SCHOOL!!!!!!!!!! =) Haraa!! Haraa!! The crowd is going wild!!! Settle down children now next is--

WOOO!!!!

Tuesday- I had a lesson. Go clarinets!!! Toodley looo!!! Woo!!! Yay!!!! I'M A WOODCHUCK!!!! =) I'm pretty sure we graphed our class's traits.

Yup!!!

After many frustrating trys I couldn't link my graph to my blog!!! *cries* If anyone knows how to do this please comment!!!! Thx!!! =)

Alright so without my super cool graph here's my class

btw this is based on our class and our survey so many of what we thought was recessive or dominant could be wrong!!!

---------------YES!!!------------NO!!!!!

Widow's peak 7------------------11 Thus, it is recessive

Dimples ------9----------------9 ???? Dominant maybe????

Earlobe attachment--3----------15 recessive

Mid Digit Hair ----4------------12 recessive

PTC Tester---11--------------6 Dominant

Cleft Chin--0-----------------18 recessive

There were some problems tho like maybe were at an age where no one has hair or some one thought that he could taste the chemical but, were tasting paper? Like in our class Michel Thought he couldn't roll his tongue, but then could.

H.W.: Can u tell if some one is heterozygous for a trait provide examples.

Wednesday- We looked at the results for the whole grade who has Mr. Finley. Then we wrote about the data. Here's what I wrote:

Does the graph for the whole grade show what ur resultz/predictions were?

Yep!!! Da data from tha whole grade does support the class data. Tongue rolling for example is shown dominant on our data and dominant for da whole grade.

Whatz the benifit of using more people for a survey?

The benifit of using data from the whole grade rather than just da class is we see more people and da resultz r more general. Like for dimples in our class the number of people without and with was the same. However, the number for da grade was like 19 to 31.

Hw: make cells and lable traits on them.

Thursday- We talked about dwarfism and how it's a dominant trait. Then Dominic came up with a great theory that punnet squares were only the estimate for one child, when we were talking about little people big world. Like there is 75% or what ever % chance a kid will be something.

After that we talked about the lab we r going to do:

We r going to put the genes and stuff we made for hw yesterday in a cup and shake it. We then pull out two genes and test our punnett square. We record the phenotype and genotype as well. Draw punett squares too!

hw: Sponge Bob Squarepants sheet #2

Friday: We went over hw and worked more on our lab.

hw: Take home quiz, blog, and wright a conclusion on lab

YEP!! Thatz da Week

What a SHOW!!!

AMAZING!!

ASTOUNDING!!!

HARRAA!!

Why thank u all and please don't hestitate to come on by next time!!!

Yep!!!