Questions for Baby Face Lab

1. Why did you cut out the chromosomes in pairs?

2. When you folded the pair of chromosome and dropped them, what did that represent?

3. What is the significance of only one of the pair of chromosomes ending its random journey facing up?

4. What does this have to do with sex cell formation?

5. What is the “n” number of the cells before you dropped them to the floor?

6. What is the “n” number of the cells after you dropped them to the floor? What do they now represent?

7. When you and your mate pushed the like pairs of chromosomes together. What was the “n” number before you pushed them together? What was the “n” number after?

8. What is the female gamete called? How many single chromosomes from each pair does it possess? What is the “n” number of this cell?

9. What is the male gamete called? How many single chromosomes from each pair does it possess? What is the “n” number of this cell?

10. What is the fertilized egg called? How many chromosomes from each pair does it possess?

11. Explain why people that had the genotype “ll” had to skip the rest of the chin characteristics?

12. How is it that there are so many colors of skin?

13. How is it that there are so many colors of hair?

14. What is it called when two genes are in a cell and one gene’s phenotype is expressed and one is not?