What do you get when you cross science with Star Wars?

Tpt's Bio Homework!!!!!

Help me out yall!

- Suppose that the Dark Side of “The Force” is codominant with the Light Side of “The Force”. What does this mean? Heterozygotes have no ability to “Use The Force”. Using your own designations for each allele, figure out the probability of Luke Skywalker having teach trait if his father (we all know who he supposedly is now) was on the Dark Side and his mother had no ability to use the Schwartz… I mean Force. What if Yoda were his father, what would be the probabilities then? According to the scenario where Anakin Skywalker is his father, is it possible at all for Luke to be on the “Light Side”? If not, what would it take for this to happen? Also, being short and green are both dominant traits. If Yoda is the father and mom is normal looking, what must their genotypes be and what are the odds of Luke having been short and green?

Thanks you guys, its helping alot....[/sarcasm]

Well sweetie the fact that what you wrote reads like Chinese stereo instructions may have ALOT to do with the lack of help. 😖

It only looks like chinese stereo instructions if you're long out of high school and can't remember what "heterozygote" and "codominant" mean 😛

That being said I have enough homework of my own already 😐

XD

Wow, that's some really amusing homework, Stefan...too bad I wasn't online last night or I would have probably actually been able to help you...gotta love AP Bio, though, we watched Spaceballs last year on Halloween and when we were talking about genetic engineering and cloning we spent an entire day discussing Star Wars 😆

By the way, I understand perfectly what the question's asking...I'm just lazy and it's only 8:20 am 😛

I just had a test on this crap. I could probably figure it out, but damn, I'm lazy.

Does it matter that Anakin was on the Light side, and then transfered to the Dark side? where would that place him? What if Luke defects to the Dark side? There are too many unknowns. What if Yoda is normal, and everyone else is a mutant alien thing?

Tpt> As much as I'd like to help - my English is okay, but not THAT good 🙂
As in... I can't decipher what you write.

What my Teacher wrote FYI.....
I just copied it and pasted it off his site.
I'll try to translate it. I hope you can understand some of the larger words I don't know how to translate science words like "homozygus"

- Suppose that the Dark Side of “The Force” is codominant with the Light Side of “The Force”.
Genetics. Kinda easy I think
What does this mean? Heterozygotes have no ability to “Use The Force”.
If you have both the Light and Dark side allele, you cant use the force.

Using your own designations for each allele
Lable them whatever you want.

figure out the probability of Luke Skywalker having teach trait if his father was on the Dark Side
No Anikan thingy...

and his mother had no ability to use the Schwartz… I mean Force.
His mom is Heterozygous

What if Yoda were his father, what would be the probabilities then?
Youda is Fully Light instead of Vader bdin fully Dark

According to the scenario where Anakin Skywalker is his father, is it possible at all for Luke to be on the “Light Side”?
Hypothetical, having nothing to do with the movies.

If not, what would it take for this to happen?

Also, being short and green are both dominant traits. If Yoda is the father and mom is normal looking, what must their genotypes be and what are the odds of Luke having been short and green?

Hows that, Hope it helps.

For Luke, he has a 1/2 chance of being able to use the Force, whether his father was of the Dark side, or Yoda.

Anakin Skywalker as his father is kind of hard to say...he was light side, then darkside, and then went back to the light side(make up you mind Anakin, goddamnit!) If you don't use the movies as a guide as to who was light side and dark, and your teacher doesn't say if Anakin was lightside or dark, then how are we supposed to know?

As for Yoda being the father, if his genes were dominant, it's a 100% chance that Luke would come out short and green, no matter what his mother's genes were.

Hope that helps, if you didn't already figure it out. It's pretty easy once you stop being lazy.

What grade are you in? We did this in 9th. 😖

11th, But in AP Bio. (Its a review, Intro to Genetics thing, just kinda forgot it...)

As for Yoda being the father, if his genes were dominant, it's a 100% chance that Luke would come out short and green, no matter what his mother's genes were.

Not quite, Yoda could be heterozygous for these traits, meaning Luke would have a 50% chance of being short and green (assuming both traits were controlled by the same gene). Technically speaking he'd have a 25% chance of being BOTH short and green, because these would most likely be two different genes. He'd have a 25% chance of being tall and normal, 25% chance of being short and normal, 25% chance of being tall and green, and 25% chance of being short and green.

Wow to have that sort of homework would be cool!I am on t he darkside btw!Servie the Empire!JM

Originally posted by Silver Stardust
Not quite, Yoda could be heterozygous for these traits, meaning Luke would have a 50% chance of being short and green (assuming both traits were controlled by the same gene). Technically speaking he'd have a 25% chance of being BOTH short and green, because these would most likely be two different genes. He'd have a 25% chance of being tall and normal, 25% chance of being short and normal, 25% chance of being tall and green, and 25% chance of being short and green.

Noone gave me Yoda's genotype, so naturally I assumed it was homozygous dominant. Noone said otherwise.

Damn Mendel and his pea plants to hell.

Can't assume with the dominant phenotype though 😛

Silly pea plants...

I loved studying genetics last year in AP Bio...I'd always be like "Okay, what's MY genotype", as the examples used are always blond/brown hair and blue/brown eyes, and I have red hair and greenish-brown eyes...heh...😂 genetics is really interesting and quite easy though.