Making Babies

As you can see our child is very beautiful, he has the thickest and brightest uni-brow I have ever seen. She also has beautiful brown eyes and a oddly square head.

  1. How does the coin flip relate to the probability of inheriting genetic conditions?

It relates to the probability of inheriting genetic conditions because the chance to inherit either one of your parents genes is a fifty-fifty, just like a coin flip.

2. How does this simulation accurately represent or not represent real life?

Some of the genes are more complex than the examples we used.

3. Did you identify any prejudices you might have about what traits you find “desirable”? Where do you think these prejudices come from?

Some less common traits had certain prejudices against them because they have certain connotations and other associations attached to them.

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