Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Onion Root Mitosis and Cell Cycle


      What I have tried to achieve with this graph is to show how often an onion's cell is found in each phase of the cell cycle. This graph shows that interphase is the main phase, followed by prophase, then metaphase, then Anaphase, and finally Telaphase.

Monday, March 5, 2012

In Sickness and in Health


Looking at the pedigree of the Blue People autosomal dominant disorders have the possibility of skipping generations.
Greg and his mother are carriers of  they gene mytonic dystrophy which means they can pass it on.
There is no way that Greg's aunt or uncle is homozygous 
He has a 50/50 chance
50/50 chance of Greg and Olga's children inheriting MD