This unit was all about genetics and inheritance. We learned about different types of inheritance, genetically linked diseases, and Punnett squares. Some themes and essential understandings of this unit are using the Punnett squares to predict your offpsring's phenotype and genotype, understanding meiosis and mitosis, knowing the different phases of the cell cycle, and learning about dominant and recessive traits. Some of my strengths in this unit was understanding dominance and Punnett squares. A weakness of mine is memorizing and knowing what happens in each phase of the cell cycle. A success of mine is being able to know the difference between mitosis and meiosis after studying it for a long time. A setback of mine is when I had trouble learning dihybrid crosses using Punnett squares. I learned how gene linkage and multifactorial diseases work and how Mendel realized how great sex is. I learned a lot of things from doing the Infographic. I really got to understand meiosis and the different diseases that are x-linked and autosomal. I want to learn more in depth about sickle cell anemia and other autosomal inherited diseases. An unanswered question I still have is what other types of multifactorial diseases are there. I wonder about how scientists will gather more information to further advance our knowledge in genetics.
I have a multimodal learning preference, but I scored highest in the categories kinesthetic and aural. I scored a 5 in both those categories, a 4 in visual, and a 2 in reading/writing. My results surprised be a bit because I didn't know that I was a kinesthetic learner. I thought I would score highest in visual because I thought I learned best visually. In order to play to my learning strengths, I will listen to vodcasts and look for examples in the textbook.
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