Genetic Variety

Genetic variety has to do with our Reebops because all of our bugs don't look exactly alike. They all may have similarities, but none are exactly alike, just like humans aren't exactly alike. Reebop's are different because of genetic variety. For example, my P1 bug has a green and brown body while my F1 bug has only green. Another example is that my F1 bug has curved feathered anntenaes and my F2 bug has curved anntenaes with no feathers on them. Genetic variety happens because the bug that mated with the P1 generation, or any other generation, might have had some other traits that the zygote will inherit.

From this picture you can see that the F2 generation is a variety of green and yellow pease because the P generation had a green pea, so the genetics can be passed along of having a green pea.

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1. If I could go back in time I would tell myself about selective breedingl. I would tell myself that you can only do selected breeding with animals that have almost the same amount of chromosomes. I would tell myself this because I think that it would've helped me understand the concept of selective breeding a lot easier.

2. I think to help with this concept we could try to breed different types of small animals with different amounts of chromosomes and then we can also breed animals with about the same amount of chromosomes. We could do that because it would explain that you can only breed two different species with the same chromosomes. An example we came up with is a liger is a mixture of a lion and tiger because they have about the same amount of chromosomes. If we tried to breed a lion and dog it wouldnt work because they dont have the same amount of chromosomes.

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If you look at the dog chromosomes and the cat chromosomes you can tell that they cannot breed because the dog has 78 chromosomes and the cat only has 38.