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 * March 13, 2012 Baby Steps**

Genotype are genes of organisms. There are to letters that represent tthe genotype. All capital letters represents dominant and all the lowercase letters are recessives. When ever something is dominant that means thats what your most likely going to get. On the website there is steps for determining genotypes of orgainisms. You have to draw a box that has 4 sections and fill in the letters and determine the possible genotypes. On the outside you put the parent. You take letters from two of the parents and fill in the box. Below you will see a example of what your box would look like.



Today we took notes on psquares and finding the % in having homozygous dominant, heterozygous, or recessive homozygous. //Glow: I know how to find the psquare and I could help someone if I need to.// //Grow: The only thing I think that I need more help is remembering the words and what they mean.//
 * March 14 & 15,2012 Notes**

Surname Map
 * March 19-20 Notes**

On the map you can find my last name Phillips in Alabama, Jefferson City, and in Columbus. The population of my name in Alabama is less than 10,000, the population of my name in Jefferson city is less than 10,000, the population of my name in Columbus was also 10,000. I couldn't find my name in anyother locations but I did find my name in Alabama two times. My name comes from England and in Wales.

Ellis Island is know as the Gateway to America but before that it was a museum for American immigration. Ellis Island is located next to the southern tip of Manhattan. Ellis Island recevied the most immigrants in 1907. I don't know if any of my ancestors have ever been to Ellis Island. Christopher Columbus came to America because he was looking for a faster way to get to Indea. Some people came to America because of their religion. The push factor that made them wan't to come to America was that he wanted to have freedom over his religion. Some people came to America because they thought that there were gold and jewels. Also Jews may have came to America to have freedom.
 * Ellis Island**

DNA is short for deoxyribonclic acid. What are genes? Genes are units of genetic material that codes for a specific trait called nucleic acids.
 * April 5, 2012 Notes**


 * April 10, 2012 Notes**

DNA must be copied..... The DNA molecules produces 2 identical new complementary strands following the rules of base pairing. Enzyme unzips the DNA so it can copy. Replication is necessary because new cells will have the correct DNA. DNA transciptption- DNA makes RNA. Replication... Is when enzmes unzip DNA and complementary nucleotides join each other and replication starts in interphase.