Traits

When a child is getting ready to be born, it is very hard for a parent to see what their child may look like in the mother because of how random it is. This is called independent assortment meaning that all options are possible. It all starts with genes from the parents to control what kind of traits a person has. These genes are all made up of alleles that are randomly selected! A child may get the randomly selected traits
which is called genotypes. Each genotype is made up of a selected number of alleles. To get the child's
genotypes you combine the parents genotypes.  These can be both dominant and resesive.  A dominant allele will make sure that the child has the trait and a recessive allele can skip a generation.  Once all of The genotypes have been made you then have the genetic makeup for your child and what it wil look like.  So as you can see chance plays a big role in what a child looks like. So.. this is what Traits means to me and what I learned about them.(: