Reproduction and Insights On Baby Lab Blog #2 (Semester 2)

         Reproduction is the biological process by which new offspring or organisms are produced  through their parents. There are two types of reproduction which are asexual and sexual. Asexual reproduction can reproduce by itself and does not need another however a sexual needs both individuals or known as gametes. Meiosis is a way to create gametes which allows offspring are created. Life without reproduction would result in un-natural ways since life would not go on well with new people and life to support. Without reproduction, life would not sustain since no evolution and new life would take place. Sexual reproduction is kind of like a lottery since, for example, in meiosis there are different sets of chromosomes that the offspring would get in order to produce them just like a lottery draw where the possibilities are kind of endless.

      In the baby lab, I realized that the offspring's genotype and phenotype depends on the parent's genotype and phenotype. Also that sometimes a trait could be prominent in the child but not in both the parents meaning that they have received from the grandparents since traits could be recessive in the parents but passed down to be dominant in the child. The baby lab showed me that traits could be passed down from any other descendant due to the fact that they could be dominant or recessive.