Look up Gregor Mendel and his pea plant experiments. Why does P1 look all alike and F1 looks very different?
P1 are the parents and F1 are the offspring of the parents. P1 is the "parental generation" and F1 all looked different because they represented only the dominant trait. The F1 offspring showed only one of the 2 parental traits. For example, in one of his experiments he crossed a homozygous tall plant with a homozygous short plant(P1) and the offspring(F1) were all tall plants, because "tall" was the dominant trait. The short plants all "skipped" the F1 generation and the recessive traits showed up in the F2 generation when a dominant trait was not present. Because of that, he ended up with a variety of different offspring.
Blog 11 In the movie Gattaca parents were allowed to pick the traits of their babies, should we be able to do this? Why or why not?
I don't think parents should be able to do this, because it's like making an artificial baby. I believe that no one should be created perfect; parents should allow their child to come out how they should be instead of trying to "fix them." Parents should be allowed to change traits such as genetic diseases and other things harmful to the baby's health, but should not be allowed to choose traits that will benefit their looks or personality. I think parents should be happy with the way their child is instead of wanting the opportunity to make them the "perfect" son or daughter. The parents should accept their child no matter what.
