In the beginning, each bug is assigned a color. My first was yellow. The object of the project was to create a genetic difference by mating your bugs with other bugs with different colors. We had to make punnett squares to indicate the offspring for each new bug.
For P1 I mated starting with one color ( yellow) and ended up with two colors for the F1 generation.
For F1 I mated starting with two colors ( yellow and black) and ended up having four different colors ( yellow, black, brown, and orange) in the F2 generation.
When F2 mated, the offspring ended up with either 7 or 8 colors.
All of this happens when the chromosomes cross over. This is also called synopsis. Crossing over is when homologous chromosomes line up closely together and form a tetrad.
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