Build a Baby! Overview: Congratulations! Today you are a parent!

Using your knowledge of meiosis and gamete production, you and your partner will build a baby. Directions: You and your table partner will decide who will be the father and who will be the mother. For each trait, use the handout on the next page to determine what phenotype you display. For each trait, record your genotype on the last page that would produce this phenotype in the table provided. Be sure to fill in your genotype under father or mother, which ever you decided to be. o Recessive phenotypes will always be homozygous for the recessive gene. o Dominant phenotypes can be heterozygous or dominant. If you display the dominant phenotype, flip a coin to decide which one you will be for the purposes of this lab (this is NOT how it works in nature). Heads is heterozygous. Tails is homozygous dominant. Name your baby! Decide the babys sex by having the father flip a coin to decide if he passes on an X chromosome or a Y chromosome (this is how sex is determined). Heads is X. Tails is Y. For each trait, fill in the Punnett squares to determine what combinations you and your partner could create. For each trait, flip a coin to decide which allele your gamete will pass on. Heads passes on the 1st allele. Tails passes on the 2nd allele. Circle the allele that gets passed on. Record the childs genotype by combining the mother and fathers alleles. Record the childs phenotype that would be produced by their genotype. When the table is fully filled out, sketch the child on a separate sheet of paper!

Helpful words: Allele: a particular version of a gene Homozygous: has two identical versions of a particular gene Heterozygous: has two different versions of a particular gene (sometimes referred to as a hybrid) Recessive gene: a gene that only gets expressed when homozygous for the trait. Dominant gene: a gene that gets expressed when either heterozygous or homozygous for the trait.

Cleft chin Childs genotype:_________ Childs phenotype: _________________

Fathers genotype (circle the one flipped)

Freckles Childs genotype:_________ Childs phenotype: _________________

Fathers genotype (circle the one flipped)

Mothers genotype (circle the flipped)

Widows Peak Childs genotype:_________ Childs phenotype: _________________

Fathers genotype (circle the one flipped)

Eye color Childs genotype:_________ Childs phenotype: _________________

Mothers genotype (circle the flipped)

Fathers genotype (circle the one flipped)

Mothers genotype (circle the flipped)

Dimples Childs genotype:_________ Childs phenotype: _________________

Fathers genotype (circle the one flipped)

Ear lobe attachment Childs genotype:_________ Childs phenotype: _________________

Mothers genotype (circle the flipped)

Fathers genotype (circle the one flipped)

Mothers genotype (circle the flipped)

Hair color Childs genotype:_________ Childs phenotype: _________________

Fathers genotype (circle the one flipped)

Mothers genotype (circle the flipped)

Mothers genotype (circle the flipped)