Thursday, March 26, 2009

Genetic Variety




Genetic Veriety played a very important role when creating my Reebop family. Without genetic variety, every body would look the same. This is because of genotypes. Genotypes is what gives people their hair color, eye color, and every other trait. For example, when I mated my bug with an other bug, we had to match there genes for the eyes, antenas, legs, wings, and dots. If the genotypes for the antenas were the same, then the antenas would be the same. Most of the time, every part of the two bugs had genetic variety. Then the phenotypes(physical traits) will be different. The two bugs in the picture are the parents of my F1. My F1 is in the picture next to them. Do you see how it looks different from them? That is because of genetic variety. It still has some of their traits.

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