Cystic Fibrosis Model

What is this model?

This is a system model demonstrating two parents passing on a recessive or dominant allele to their offspring. This model attempts to demonstrate a real world scenario by providing two parents with randomly selected traits and genetically calculating the verdict of whether the parents should have children. Cystic Fibrosis is one example of such a recessive trait, and the model helps to simulate the processes that parents must go through in order to decide whether they can have kids without passing on such a disorder. There are no variables to manipulate, but the simulation may be run multiple times and studied for patterns.

What can this Model be used to teach?

Understand the idea of genotypes and phenotypes in relation to dominant and recessive inheritance

Understand the probabilities involved in passing on a recessive genetic disorder

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