For example:
- Hair/ Body color-red or blue; green or orange;
- Make it a codominant trait and do green, orange, or green with orange stripe
- Height: tall or short
- Eyes: 1 or 3
- Wings or no wings
- Horns/no horns
- Hair: straight, curly, bald, spiky
- Teeth: sharp teeth, flat teeth, both, no teeth
- Body shape: round, oval, square, heart shaped
- Dragons: fire breathing/ice breathing
Your sex-linked that can be easy too. You can make this a dominant/recessive trait. For example; maybe 1 eye is dominant and 3 eyes is recessive, but this time it is linked to the X chromosome, so you have to include the genotype for females (XX) and males (XY). Remember, this does not mean all females have a trait and all males don't (or have a different one).
The multiple allele trait will probably be the hardest for you. But again, just look at what you want to do with your creature and make it happen. Maybe you want to do hair. The alleles are S (straight), C (curly) or B (bald); S and C are codominant and B is recessive. So, if they are SS or SB you get straight hair; CC or CB is curly hair; SC is straight AND curly; CC is bald.
NOW, you can draw out the traits and the genotypes that would give you that phenotype. Then, draw two examples of your organisms (name them!) and give them different traits. Yes, one should be a female (XX) and one a male (XY), but you don't have to give them some trait that shows that; I can figure it out from the genotype.
From there, the other parts will be easy. Just break it down to a step-by-step process, but start at the beginning.
When is this project due? Thank you!
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DeleteThank you so much for your response! Amber was working to try to get a lot of it done tonight then she called Mya to see if she knew for sure. We thought Weds but then we thought tomorrow. Just a bit of confusion on our part. :-)
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