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This lab was extremely

This lab was extremely confusing. I understand that the purpose of the lab was to  comprehend how, why, and what traits  an organism receives from its parents. In this experiement we used an online lab program where we would design and combine different types of flies to then analyze what traits have been passed on from one generation to the other. I did my best to get a variety of results. What I seemed to get when I designed the female fly with curly wing shapes and purple eyes and the male with aristapedia antennas and star shaped eyes their offsprings (the majority of them basically 75 out of 103 were wild types (regular or normal types of flies). I tried the experiement 25 types and seemed to get the same results, that the dominat trait that seemed to be passed on from generation to generation did not really change and all offspings were wild types. In this case Mendel's 9:3:3:1 ratio, which is still somewhat confusing to me, I'm assuming really does not fit since none of the offsprings did not inherent one specific trait from neither the mother or father. Meaning that they were all consistent in their traits not showing any major diversity.

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