Blog Post 8
- What did you learn this week?
This week we learned about mutations, genotypes, and phenotypes. The genotype of someone is directly inherited from someones parents. The phenotype are traits coming from the expression of genes. Phenotype can also be decided from environmental factors. With mutations, most of them are neutral. All though there can be positive and negative mutations as well.
2. Are you able to relate what you learned to what you already knew?
I already had previous knowledge about genotypes, phenotypes, and mutations from when I had learned about them in high school. However, I had not remembered most of the specifics about them. I had remembered that phenotype was physical, but had forgot that it can also be decided from environmental factors.
3. How can you apply what you've learned to your teaching in the future?
I liked the activity we did with mutations and super heros. I think that this activity made it easier for me to understand about insertions, deletions, and substitutions. It also helped me learn about what effects this had on the amino acid sequences. I would like to use this activity in my future classroom, because children love super heros, and would find this interesting because it is related to something they enjoy.
Hi Erica!
ReplyDeleteI also remember growing up learning that phenotypes describe the physical attributes, but was fascinated to learn about the relationship between genotype and phenotype. I really appreciated how you incorporated the idea that mutations can be neutral, beneficial, and harmful. It is important that we are teaching our future students about all of these ideas. Great job!
Hi Erica, I also didn't really remember certain aspects about the genotypes and phenotypes. I know more now, but there were moments I was lost about the information. Im glad that we get to learn more about the topic.
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