Tongue rolling

Wenling Lu, Abby Andoy, Sabrina Lightfoot,

Karlee Aragon, Johana Santiago

ABSTRACT:

the dominant allele. The allele that

An allele is an alternative form of a

doesnt allow you to roll your tongue is the

gene that is located at a specific position

recessive allele. As long as one dominant

on a specific chromosome (about.com).

allele is present, the dominant trait will

These DNA codings determine distinct

show. For example if you have one

traits that can be passed on from parents

dominant and one recessive allele (Tt),

to offspring (about.com). The process by

the dominant trait will show up. The only

which alleles are transmitted was

way for the recessive trait to show up is if

discovered by Gregor Mendel and

you had two recessive alleles (tt). The

formulated in what is known as Mendels

purpose of this study was to investigate

law of segregation (about.com). The gene

the population of students that attend

for tongue rolling exists in two alleles, one

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allele that allows you to tongue roll, and

Academy who can tongue roll. We

one allele that doesnt allow you to tongue

observed forty-five girls and forty-five

roll. We have chosen the letter T to

boys in the 9th, 10th, 11th, and 12th grade.

represent tongue rolling. Capital T for

Our null hypothesis was that 30 students

dominant and lowercase t for recessive.

would have TT (both dominant alleles), 30

The allele that allows you to tongue roll is

students would have Tt (one dominant