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Summary:
You may not realize it, but the choices you, or your spouse make during pregnancy can a massive effect on your child. For instance, if you chose to smoke while pregnant the child can and most likely will be born with some issues. Your baby may be born to small or born prematurely. Smoking can damage your baby's developing lungs and brain as well. Even stress, sleep, and your diet can depict whether your child is healthy or not.


SP2 - Developing & Using Models:
The Punnett square is a diagram that is used to predict an outcome of how a pairs offspring will look.  Every person has two alleles, and as they have a kid they pass down one of their two alleles. Depending whether or not you inherit two dominant, two recessive, or one of both, you will have a noticeable phenotype resembling one of your parents. For example if your mom is homozygous for her green eyes, and your dad is heterozygous for his brown eyes, there is a chance that you will get either brown of green eyes. We use Punnett squares to easily the possible combinations that the eye color will be.

XCC - Cause & Effect:
Your health is not only determined on what your mother does, but what you do after you are born. Your mom decided to eat very health while pregnant with you. The result is a perfectly healthy baby, but if after birth you have an unhealthy diet and only eat junk food, you will become obese and have other health issues in your life. The daily life choices you make will effect you in the future. Living in a big city you can develop cancer from all the air pollution there. This is why it is important to take care of your body and/or your future offspring.





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