Dear Neal,
We have learned a lot from this project. We were surprised by some of the results. In some catagories, especially the white forelock, the dominant wasn't always the most common. We didn't know you inherited a bent or straight pinky. One student in our class knew it, beacause his pinkies are bent and he knew that during baseball it makes it hard to hold the bat.Most of us had never paid any attention to our ear lobes as to wether they were attached.
Ou highest percentage was in the free earlobes, it was 78%. The lowest was color blindness at 13%.
The white forelock was hard to tell. Some of us thought we had one and the teacher said no. We also had trouble when determining if a pinky was bent or not. Some were easy to tell but some students wanted to count the tip of the thumb as bent.
We think including the color of your eyes would be easy to do. From
doing this project it prompted many of us to go home and talk to our parents
about some of the traits we inherited. It also got our parents to thinking
about where they got some of their traits.
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