Ha! I doubt mine will go down, I probably got my uncle's genes... Gotta love genitics!

We're studying genetics in science (you wouldn't imagine how difficult some people find punnet squares...... you'd think they'd never played four square).

Well you just confused me, so I can imagen how difficult it can be.

Welcome, students, to science class, where your head will tear in half! LOL

Punnet squares- a graph/model that helps calculate probability of genotypes and phenotypes.
Alleles- the two versions of a single trait (dominant and recessive) each parent gives two alleles.
Genotypes- the alleles in code form (BB, Bb, or bb)
Phenotypes- the personality or phsyical traits that the alleles designate (dominant= brown furred rabbit recessive= white furred rabbit)
Homozygous- two alleles that are both dominant or recessive (bb or BB)
Heterozygous- two alleles that (Bb or bB)

*note: capitalized letters are dominant while lower-case are recessive....... I'm assuming you know what those mean*

Now imagine a square, devided into quarters that are square shaped. On parent's genotype is on the top, while the other is one the left. One allele is located above or beside a quarter square. Each pair of alleles (one from each parent) is a possible combination for the offspring.

A phenotype is determined by the combination of traits (an offspring with BB or homozygous dominant will be purebred brown fur. Another with Bb or bB will be heterozygous, the dominant allele covers up the recessive allele, so the offspring will be brown but not purebred. Finally an offspring with bb will be completely recessive and white furred).

Was that sufficient or mind-blowing?

A little bit of both actually.

You speak in riddles good sir. I was never that interested in biology. More of a chemistry person myself... though genenology is probably closely related to chemistry in some aspects...

Ohwell, I'm going into the technology trade! I won't need to know that stuff! Hopefully....

Don't worry, it gets a lot more complex later on.

This post has been edited by Pisces: Mar 22 2007, 07:29 AM

*shrugs* Oh well, I do perfectly fine now, it's the other people who have trouble.

Hey motha duckas, what's up?

Spring Break is almost what's up for me, can't wait, all this crap I've had to go through this year... I NEED a vacation. I'm just going to borrow my friend's phone and call everyone I need to call using *67 so they can't get ahold of me.

Oh and also I think I have retinal detachment. And also for all you who gave me compassion for stealing, I quit stealing, but not for you. I still don't think it's wrong to steal from international businesses, but I am willing to accept that most people think it's wrong and since I've been charged with 7 things in the last year the only defense I have is that not a single one of them involved doing anything anyone could really consider that wrong, or harmful really. They're BS charges, but getting caught stealing would ruin that whole argument.

O_o i must have missed the discussion on stealing.

Same here, anyone want to clue us in?

It was AWILE ago, like start of summer awile ago.

Yeah, I was the main antagonist of DoomedOne on that one.

But good job on quitting, no matter the reason.

Reputation is a umbrella seller.

Wow, that was a long time ago! Even I chipped in my one and a half sense/cents.

Anything that you do, should be done in your own benefit anyways. Congratulations would be pointless, and perhaps even a bit mocking, but I do hope that you see things in a clearer light.

I take it no one whats to tell us what happened?

spring break just started for me... man i partied hard last night. so now im just gonna relax for about 8 days then i start taking vibraphone lessons for band.

Nothing 'happened'. DoomedOne offered his insights and opinions into stealing, we discussed it with him. What made it particualrly memorable, was the fact that it went on for pages and days.

Hey, has anyone seen Shooter? Just saw it today, great movie.

No, but it looked interesting. Might see it if I had the money.

Urg... Today has just been so bad... How I wish I could just skip to tomorrow...