Students formed groups of four people to work in the bioethics projects that we will develop during the quarter. Each group proposed one or more topics that are controversial and have a genetic basis. Topics were assigned to groups that proposed them, and in a few cases groups decided to choose a topic suggested by the instructor.
We also did exercise 01, on the basics of studying human genetics by using pedigree analyses. Students did a little mini-survey in their families to find out who had one of the alternative forms of expression of the following traits:
- Hitchhiker's thumb
- Tongue rolling
- Free/attached ear lobe
- Hand folding
Each student learned how to draw and interpret a basic pedigree using such traits in their families, and learned how to figure out the genotypes of each individual in the pedigree.
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