Super Hero Genetics

Summary: This week we talked about determining offspring. We have in this case a superhero and a super villain having a child. I know what your'e thinking, that sounds like some kind of fanfiction or something but what if I told you this idea didn't have to be all made up in our heads. Using the power of genetics as we have learned we can actually figure out close to what the child may look like. First of all we must learn some basics of genetics. DNA is the blueprints that make up all living things. Since DNA of course isn't all the same there are alleles that determine your specific traits. These traits don't just come out of thin air they are passed down from your parents. You see so we can determine the child using the parents traits. So now our fan dreams can become a reality.

S&EP: This week we have been analyzing data. This week we have been using traits from both of the parents to get an understanding of what there super child will look like. You may be wondering how do you even do this and figure out how to organize all those possible combinations. Welcome the Punnet Square. This will help you determine what your favorite pairs kid may look like. Lets just say you wanted to see the hair color of the child and the mom had red hair and the dad had brown hair. From here we must see if those traits are dominant or recessive. Dominant is a trait that is the strongest or most powerful. Then of course recessive is the opposite the weaker trait. Now we have Mom's recessive red hair or hh and Dad's dominant brown hair or HH. Since the dominant trait is present twice for the father this means that the child will have a 100% chance of having brown hair. Using this technique we can begin to make a child... theoretically.

XCC: This week we have used scale, proportion and quantity. Now for all these wonderful ideas we've created for your perfect superhero child some artists out there may want to put these ideas to paper. This is were we use scale, proportion and quantity. These three things were and are very important when drawing your super child. In class we had to draw the superhero and villains baby based on the traits we determined earlier. I first had to use proportions to determine how big to make our characters body. When drawing you want to keep everything proportional for example the head must be a a reasonable size to the rest of the body. You don't want a mutant. Next we have scale. This is truly up to your character's size but if you're making let's say an ant sized character make sure your background reflects its height so don't make it bigger than a skyscraper. Now last of all quantity. Your character should be coming along nicely now so you may be thinking of some cool weapons to equip it with or something else cool. The quantity doesn't truly have a limit but I believe its important to keep your character simple. Try not to add to much of any feature. Like fifty blades gets boring after a while so keep it clean. Now that I have equipped you with all the tools to make the best fan super child possible go ahead and use your creativity to make your fan dreams come true.