Coin Sex Lab Relate and Review

In this lab, we used coins and a partner to simulate the assortment of alleles resulting in different genotypes and phenotypes during sex. The flipping of the coin represented the random combining to create new genes and the probability of a certain type appearing was 50%. The results we got followed the trend of the dihybrid cross simulation but obviously wasn’t exactly the same because real life isn’t probable. We can use probability to state what the possible alleles could be after meiosis or gene segregation, when cells are recombined, and to understand the number of homozygous or heterozygous individuals after a monohybrid cross. In my life, if I had a disease, whether autosomal or X-linked, I could see the possibility of my child going through the same disease by using probability.