Description:For this project, we had to use forensics to find out who had murdered Carlton Comet. This crime report expresses the evidence found on the crime scene. It also shows the events that we knew of. We found who killed Carlton, why, and the evidence to back up our claim. This project was to teach us about ink chromatography, DNA analysis, and analysis of the family tree.
Concepts:
Concepts:
- Genotype: The genes behind the trait.
- Phenotype: How the trait is shown.
- Pedigree: Family tree, showing list of diseases passed down.
- Karyotype: The physical representation of genes.
- Genetic Disease: A mutation in the genetic code that can affect the proteins in your body, that typically passes down from generation to genteration, due to the passing of genes to the offspring.
- Chromatography: A process of dividing the chemicals from the ink. We used this to identify who's pen was used.
- Heterozygous: When two alleles in a specific gene are different.
- Homozygous: When two alleles in a specific gene are the same.
- Dominant: The allele that takes priority in the gene.
- Recessive: An allele that does not take priority, and mainly requires both alleles to be the same for the trait to be expressed.
- Co-dominance: When both alleles in a gene are dominant. This causes both traits to be expressed.
- Incomplete Dominance: A heterozygous gene that have both traits combine.
Reflection: I think I could have worked harder on this project. I think that my leadership and empathy were strong. Like when I suggested that Nancy Normal could have done it from knowing that she was the only one with blood on her, other than the body. I think my empathy was good when my group members argued about her not having a motive, which was nice to hear a counter arguement.
I think I needed to work on my cooperation and my explanation skills. I mainly wanted to focus on the why, more than working on the presentation, which I could have worked more on. I also came up with a lot of good ideas, but struggled with explaining them. I don't know how to explain them still, but there was a couple about her motives and her family tree. I believe this was a common problem, since the family tree had a lot of "mixture" (there was some incest and it was confusing to follow).
I think I needed to work on my cooperation and my explanation skills. I mainly wanted to focus on the why, more than working on the presentation, which I could have worked more on. I also came up with a lot of good ideas, but struggled with explaining them. I don't know how to explain them still, but there was a couple about her motives and her family tree. I believe this was a common problem, since the family tree had a lot of "mixture" (there was some incest and it was confusing to follow).