Description of his Traits

RuPual is a boy who has light brown skin, blue eyes, has attached ears and a lot more. This baby boy has nice long eyelashes and fine eyebrows as well as wavy hair that isn’t too long so he is able to see. RuPual has a nice small rounded nose and face, as well as big eyes to make sure he can observe anything. And finally, his little face has freckles, no widow’s peak, thick average size lips, and a look of innocence.

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

The coin flip allows us to see how this works in real life because we get alleles/traits from both our biological parents. The coin flip demonstrates how we will receive one complete set of chromosomes from our father and our mother and then both complete sets are paired resulting in 23 pairs of chromosomes (46 chromosomes). Then the coin flip (and sometimes multiple coin flips) allows us to find our genotype and see what trait we passed down to our offspring. We have a 50/50 chance of either looking more like our biological mother or biological father or a complete mix since we inherit traits from them which is a 50/50 chance for the coin flip as well which gives us the dominant or recessive allele. The probability is 50/50 (just like the coin) but, sometimes it depends on the the trait to see if it’s more complicated then just one flip of the coin to inherit genetics and traits from our biological parents.

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

This simulation is accurate in a way and not in another. The accuracy comes from how we do receive an allele from each parent (mother and father) and then this creates the genotype which is what phenotype (observable traits) we receive. However, the reason it’s also inaccurate is because genes are very complicated and it’s not usually only one gene that codes for one trait exactly. There are very complicated traits to code for with uses multiple alleles (not like in this experiment). The environment can also affect are traits and this will also change how things are coded. I believe this experiment is a great start to show how we get traits from both parents which give us our genotype and phenotype however, to be more accurate we would have to go more in depth and overlap and code a lot more.

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

To be honest, of course there is always be things in life different humans like and other things humans dislike, these are our preferences. I believe the way we grow up, our society, our families, and everything affects how and what we see desirable. The prejudices come from stereotypes in my perspective, these stereotypes decide what are beautiful or ugly; but, I think everything is beautiful in it’s own way, maybe not right from the beginning but, everyone is able to learn to love something. With a child it’s extremely hard to not love your own but, there are always instances, situations, and more that can affect our decisions. In a perfect world stereotypes and ranking wouldn’t exist allowing people to not be self-conscious, anxious or anything; but, this isn’t the world we live in and we have to do the best with this place that we have.