Our group has been experimenting with the plants grown from broccoli calabrese seeds, which turned out to be very thin, short plants with large leaves. Just by looking at these plants, we can predict that they were descended by really short plants with large leaves. We can predict, using a punnet square with the plants genotypes, that the traits of the offspring will be short with large leaves because in their "family" these are dominant traits. The offsprings will recieve these traits through their parents gametes joining together and the way their genes line up during independent assortment. The plant we are experimenting with will pass on the genetic information onto the next generation through a process known as meiosis where four new and different haploid daughter cells, which are mated and the genes are passed on to the next generation. Our plants offsprings might look like them or probably not because of process known as crossing-over, where chromatids of homologous chromosomes pair up forming an x and then they are broken into segments. These segments are then exchanged with the other chromatid of the homologous chromosome. So many different forms of came to be from just one ancestral species because of meiosis and it's creation of four geneticly different haploid daughter cells.
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