Monday, October 13, 2008

genes and genes and genes...

hellow everyone this is yuliana
today is the second week of October...=) yeah and in few more days i will be having one week holidays that i have been waiting for...which is good...haha

okay, so here i am as usual just typing away about what had happened today.
the time now is 10:49 p.m. hehe i had just finished studying for my UT ( understanding test ) a few minutes ago and currently listening to James Morrison, You give me Something, a very light beat of song, a good relaxation song to accompany the night...=) and in the same time to soothe the brain that had been working hard today hehe

well because today i was having science module. and it is about biology, where the problem asked what are the traits that allows us, have the same traits as our parents etc.
and honestly speaking, though clueless about it, eventually i was glad that i managed to cast away the doubts and as a matter of factly enjoyed the learning process very much.
i learnt that the homozygeous and hetrozygeous in our genes are the ones that allows us to be able to have this particular traits that were being shared and splitted from our parents and transferred to us.
and sometimes, we may find some people that have the same traits or face as us right, yeah and this is because of this thing called convergent evolution which is: the development of similar functions and structures in unrelated or distantly-related organisms.

yeah e.g. like bats and birds, they are from different family group, but they both have wings...yeah so despite of being different there are still some similarities between them. and this is because of this alleles that are either allozygous/ autozygeous.
and allozygous---alike but not related. it has 2 alleles that have different ancestral alleles through convergent evolution which made them similar.
and autozygeous--- are alike and related. and yeah this is what caused us to have the same traits as our parents...=) and other reason why perhaps someo f us has the same features as our mom and not dad or maybe dad and not mom, is because, of the dominant and recessive genes.

thus if the mom's blood type for example is more dominant than the father, thus the kid may more likely have the same blood type as the mom...but it all also depends on the criss crossing of the genes. ( hehe more things will be able to be found in wikipedia and more...=p)

but what really amazed me most is the way the incomplete dominance works...hehe this is when both genes are dominant and allows a producing of a new breed. like red flower and white flower...if it contains both dominant genes/ alleles then the next flower that may be formed will become a new colour which is pink...( sweet!!) [ for this link you can go to wikipedia and read up all about homozygeous ]

woooh man...this is really the first time i find science so interesting..hehe but really...today problem and learning object is INDEED INTERESTING. it AMAZED ME A LOT !!!

and ohh, one more thing, if you are wondering what is the difference between bats and birds, hehe the difference will be: bats do not have feathers but furs instead, unlike the birds, and bats fly with its fingers, Unlike the flapping motion of a bird,which flies with its whole arm
extended; a bat’s wing motions are more like an exaggerated
breaststroke. while birds have forearms and short hand bones that support its feathers and allows the movement of flapping of up and down motion of the wings. The wing’s structure is shaped similarly to an upside-down,flattened saucer. (http://www.glenwoodcaverns.com/pdfs/Bats_and_Birds.pdf) yeah so this is the link of bats and birds, if u want to know more...=)

okay, so enough of today's report haha and well pardon me if it seems like the blog is getting longer and longer...=p but anyway many good facts are written here, so do read it...=)

take care people
God bless and good night....=)

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