1 Who am I? My Genes, My Goals This is a copy of the original instructions for this project along with CLASS DATA and CONCLUSIONS.

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Slide 2 1 Who am I? My Genes, My Goals This is a copy of the original instructions for this project along with CLASS DATA and CONCLUSIONS. Slide 3 2 Slide 4 3 Widows Peak Tongue Rolling Dimples Earlobes Color Vision (next slide) Freckles Mid-digital Finger Hair (not shown) Cleft Chin Some human traits Slide 5 4 Red-green color blindness (recessive, x) Slide 6 5 Slide 7 6 Extra Questions for Discussion: A. If a person has free earlobes, it is impossible to predict his or her exact genotype. Why is this? Slide 8 7 B. Look at classmates results for all traits. Do most students have dominant traits, recessive traits, or an approximately equal mix of dominant and recessive? Why do you think this is? Slide 9 8 C. Does it matter which traits you have? Why or why not? Slide 10 9 EQ: Do your genes determine your success? (Or do your environment and lifestyle choices matter more?) according to Dumbledore: It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities." Albus Dumbledore, from Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets Do you agree? Slide 11 10 D. If you interviewed your family members, do any of them have phenotypes more similar to yours than your lab partners phenotype was to yours? Are any family members more different? Slide 12 11 E. Do any of these traits matter? In other words, can you achieve your goals with the genes you have? Slide 13