Blog 12 Mendel's Pea Plant Experiment

In one experiment about Pea plants were Mendel cross-pollinated smooth yellow pea plants with the wrinkly green pea plant. The first generation pea crop or f1 was yellow and round as its yellow and round parent. During the cross-pollination the yellow pea parent somehow dominated the green pea plant thus the yellow pea children. This experiment resulted to Mendel discovering the two types of traits-dominant and recessive. For this experiment the dominant trait was yellow and round because they had been the result in the children pea plant. The inheritance of each trait is determined by units or factors now later called as genes. When Mendel tried the experiment again, this time using the result of the parent generation- all yellow and all round and pollinating it with a self pollinated grown up plant(f2). However this time the result was of yellow and green pea crops. Biological inheritance is determined by factors that are passed from one generation to the next.The principle of dominance states that some alleles are dominant and others are recessive. Organisms with dominant allele for a particular form of a trait will always exhibit that form of the trait.

http://www.juliantrubin.com/bigten/mendelexperiments.html

http://anthro.palomar.edu/mendel/mendel_1.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregor_Mendel

Blog 11 A Child's Traits

My opinion on whether or not parents should be able to pick the traits of their babies or not is no. It may be because i havent had to face the fears of having a disable child or faceing the fact that the child wouldnt be able to persue their dreams because of their traits. However, my opinion is still no the parents shouldnt be able to choose the traits of their child no matter how much they want their child to be the best. I think is should like in the movie for vincent, be left to fate. If parent were able to choose their childs trait it would change the view of the world by a lot. First of all it just doesnt seem natural to have a child with traits that were chosen no by chance or luck. The child may be young and not yet able to make desions for themselves but it is still a human and being able to pick how to make a child just doesnt seem humane. Everyone will end up the same and with no diversity since not many parents will choose a bad triat for their child. With that everything like the job types will change. With all the good traits all children will be able to get the job they want but the competition will increase since all of them have good traits. There wont be a middle class or higher class anymore with everyone the same. We would be increasing the problems in the daily like too, if parents were able to arrange the traits there would be a new super race of humans, and likely a higher risk that some people with bad ideas would try to take advantage of it to hurt or threat innocents. The human race is already powerful as it is, enough power to wreck the animal kingdom. Adding the super race would wreck even more of the world, we humans are already killing the world by our inventions.
http://www.ehow.com/about_5386957_inherited-traits-parents.html
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/277/5325/494.abstract
http://www.futurefoundation.org/documents/The_Human_Impact_on_Planet_Earth.pdf