Asandle1 Week 2
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Week 2 Journal Entry
Purpose:
The purpose of this week's assignment was multifaceted. Of course, as stated in the overview by Dr. Dahlquist it will help understand models and pair that with the process of science. It also served as a way to review important ideas in "genetics, biochemistry, evolution, and the central model of molecular biology" On a deeper level, it also allowed us to uncover firsthand the processes at play in terms of alleles and dominant and recessive genes. It also allowed us to get a quick practical understanding of mutations.
Methods/Results (Electronic Lab Notebooks):
Followed the step by step instructions in the packet provided by Dr.Dahlquist. The steps I took followed the packet. Here is documentation of the specific process taken:
Media:Steps_in_Making_a_Purple_Flower_Lab_notebook.pdf
Mutation to Get a purple flower
1) Mutate the red flower since it has one of the necessary alleles.
2) The first three attempts to mutate did not result in purple.
3) The 4th attempt to mutate a red flower resulted in purple.
4) We attempted to cross breed these flowers but they kept resulting in non-true breeding flowers. We discussed that it is possible to get a true breeding purple through mutation but after more than 100 attempts we did not get a purple true-breeding flower.
Scientific Conclusion:
In Conclusion, through the help of Dr. Dahlquist, Hailey and I were able to uncover the process of inheritance that Gregor Mendel witnessed hundreds of years ago. We were able to see the process of dominant and recessive traits, and how you can achieve true-breeding of traits and what processes occur when you have a true-breeding flower, that all the sudden is no longer true-breeding, mutations. For us we mutated true-breeding red flowers to attempt to achieve a true-breeding purple flower.
Acknowledgements:
- First I would like to acknowledge Hailey for bearing with me/putting up with my lack of knowledge and explaining the basics to me in terms of what we were doing, she is far more knowledgeable and experienced.
- Inspired by Hailey's Journal layout for my headers.
- I worked with Hailey in class. We texted outside of class on the friday before class to discuss our plan. We then texted again Wed, Jan 24 around 8pm to discuss the assignment.
- Completely Copied Hailey's references section as I was running out of time on deadline.
- Dr. Dahlquist was extremely helpful in the process of understanding what was actually happening as we were navigating Aipotu. Many thanks for her patience with me and her teaching ability.
- Except for what is noted above, this individual journal entry was completed by me and not copied from another source Asandle1 (talk) 00:00, 25 January 2024 (PST)
References
- Aipotu (1.3.3). (2017). [Computer software]. https://aipotu.umb.edu/
- LMU BioDB 2024. (2024). Aipotu I. Retrieved January 18, 2024, from https://xmlpipedb.cs.lmu.edu/biodb/spring2024/images/5/56/AipotuI.pdf
- LMU BioDB 2024. (2024). Week 2. Retrieved January 24, 2024, from https://xmlpipedb.cs.lmu.edu/biodb/Spring2024/index.php/Week_2
- Hivanson Week 2 2024. (2024). Visited January 25,2025 https://xmlpipedb.cs.lmu.edu/biodb/spring2024/index.php/Hivanson_Week_2
