{"id":22108,"date":"2024-04-03T03:46:37","date_gmt":"2024-04-02T22:16:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=22108"},"modified":"2025-10-14T11:01:03","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T05:31:03","slug":"punnett-square","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/punnett-square\/","title":{"rendered":"Punnett square"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Punnett square:\u00a0<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The Punnett Square is named after <strong>British geneticist Reginald Punnett.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>How does it work?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Along the top and side of the grid the possible genetic traits of one parent on one side and the other parent on the other side is listed.<\/li>\n<li>Then, you fill in the squares by combining the traits from each parent. Each square effectively represents a possible combination of traits that their offspring could inherit.<\/li>\n<li>It\u2019s a simple way to visualise the probabilities of different traits showing up in the offspring.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Application:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Punnett Squares are commonly <strong>used in biology<\/strong> to understand <strong>inheritance patterns<\/strong>, like when you learn about dominant and recessive genes in school.<\/li>\n<li>It is a useful tool that helps predict the <strong>variations and probabilities<\/strong> resulting from <strong>cross-breeding.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It can also be used to understand the <strong>genetic traits<\/strong> in the offspring of animals, including humans.<\/li>\n<li>Researchers typically use them together with Mendelian inheritance.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1:What is Genetic engineering?<\/h3>\n<p>It refers to the direct manipulation of an organism&#8217;s genome using advanced DNA technology. It involves the introduction, deletion or modification of genes within an organism&#8217;s DNA to produce desirable traits.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/science\/punnett-square-a-genetics-puzzle\/article68012576.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Punnett square: A genetics puzzle<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Punnett squareis named after British geneticist Reginald Punnett.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":22109,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-22108","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}