The zine category I chose to focus on was the "We're All Humans". I thought it was important to address because I feel that a lot of people know about their heritage and culture, but not as many people know about the science being heredity and how you're related to others. I want to educate people on the science behind genes and heredity. I want to educate how they're a part of their culture.
Genes can affect our characteristic traits. They can be affected by the heredity that you got when you were born. Both parents and their family line work together to provide genes and chromosomes to make you and your genes. Some of your traits can be from your dad, and some from your mom. Some of the traits you receive can be dominant, which means they are more likely to show. There are recessive traits, too. These aren't as visible, and can sometimes be seen on rarer occasions, because the dominant traits might overpower the recessive ones. The combinations of genes and alleles are like a game of chance. Those mutations can be passed on to future generations, in a study call epigenetics. It's where certain parts of the genetic code are locked and unused, but can be unlocked by the environment and the organism's surroundings. There are on and off "switches" in the genetic code of organisms that can be turned on and off depending on certain environments it's in or certain experiences it may have. As a baby, you mave have had blonde hair and blue eyes. That's because the genes that produce melanin are turned off in the early stages of your childhood. As you get older, though, the melanin code gets unlocked, and is turned on. Melanin is the amino acid that controls the pigment of your skin, hair, eyes, etc. Your hair may begin to change color and your eye color may change, depending on how much genetic code you have for creating melanin. The reason I used Spanish in my zine to communicate with the Hispanic community, which is who the Heritage event is focused largely on. I used the images in my zine to emphasize the categories on each page. The DNA drawing in the "Herencia" category is supposed to emphasize that heredity exists through the genetic code. Theorists, The Game. “Game Theory: Why Eevee Is the MISSING LINK to Pokemon Evolution!” YouTube, YouTube, 29 Nov. 2018, www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qn2XVQ4XXPY. "Defining A Species." Understanding Evolution, U.C.M.P Berkeley, 22 August 2008, https://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/article/evo_41 “What Is Epigenetics?” Edited by Steven Dowshen, KidsHealth, The Nemours Foundation, Mar. 2018, kidshealth.org/en/parents/about-epigenetics.html.
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