Making Babies

Today I'm gonna be talking about how babies are created. A week ago we were asked by our teacher to be paired with the opposite sex. The nine things that we reviewed and are needed for making babies that I'm gonna be talking about are : phenotype, gene, genotype allele, dominate allele, recessive allele, gametes, sperm and egg and meiosis.

phenotype - the physical characteristics or traits of an organism and can be defined as outward appearance (such as hair color and texture)

genotype - the genetic composition of an organism. The actual alleles of each gene carried by the organism.

dominant allele - the expression of the recessive allele is completely masked.

recessive allele - an allele that is expressed only in homozygous and is completely masked by dominant allele.

genes - is the unit of hereditary, causing all of the differences in characteristics or traits. And every gene have two forms represented by upper and lower cases.

allele - one of the different forms of a particular gene.

gametes - a haploid sex cell formed in sexually reproducing organism who are male (sperm cell) and female (egg cell).

sperm cell and egg cell - has one copy of each gene.

meiosis - a type of cell division in which diploid cell divides to form with a daughter cell that only has one copy of each gene.

Based on all these things that I mentioned, we should be interested to know these things in order to be informed about our offspring, and if we never tried to discover biology we would never knew about ourselves and how babies are created.

By: Ajet Kacalniku

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