Family+Pedigree

**__Pedigree Reflection__**
__-What steps did you need to complete in order to plan your pedigree?__ In order to plan my pedigree I first had to choose two characteristics that would be appropriate for the generations in my family. Then, based on the characteristics I included information about myself, my mom, dad, siblings, grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins through the pedigree. As you can see above in my pedigree the two characteristics I chose was glasses or no glasses and straight, wavy or curly hair. Then to complete my pedigree, to show that somebody had glasses for a female I placed a light red rectangle on top of a female "person". In addition, to show if somebody had glasses for a male I placed a light purple (lavender) on top of the "person". Also, the key shows what a "person" would look like without glasses for both female and male. To continue, I placed shapes on top of the "person's" head to show whether they had straight, wavy or curly hair. To conclude, it took a lot of steps in order to plan and complete my pedigree.

__-What did you need to think about when you were creating and organizing your pedigree?__ When creating and organizing my pedigree I first had to think about which characteristic(s) I am going to incorporate in my pedigree. Then when creating my pedigree I had to think about format, color, shapes and people. First, one of the things that I needed to think about is format, I needed to think how it was going to be set up where the key and the actual pedigree was going to be placed (direction, left, right). Second, I needed to think about was color, I needed to think which colors I was going to use to represent glasses or no glasses. Third, I needed to think of shapes like which shapes I was going to use and from those shapes which one was going to represent either straight, wavy or curly hair. Fourth, I needed to think about people. When creating my pedigree I was given the option of which shapes or "people" are going to represent female and male. There were a lot choices which is what I had to think about, "What is going to be the most appropriate for my pedigree?" In conclusion, I needed to think about a lot of things to create and organize my pedigree.