Frozen Dumbo Project – Student Research
“Wild” Father
Trait
Father’s
Genotype
Father’s Phenotype
Mother’s
Genotype
Mother’s Phenotype
Hearing Ability
Tusks
Smell
Metabolism
Skin Thickness
Tusk Muscles
Ear Size
Neuroticism
Captive Father
Trait
Father’s
Genotype
Father’s Phenotype
Mother’s
Genotype
Mother’s Phenotype
Hearing Ability
Tusks
Smell
Metabolism
Skin Thickness
Tusk Muscles
Ear Size
Neuroticism
Elephant Baby Traits: Fill out after completing the Punnett squares and selecting the offspring
for each trait
Trait
Captive Baby Elephant
Baby’s
Baby’s
Genotype
Phenotype
Trait
Hearing Ability
Hearing Ability
Tusks
Smell
Metabolism
Skin Thickness
Tusk Muscles
Ear Size
Neuroticism
Tusks
Smell
Metabolism
Skin Thickness
Tusk Muscles
Ear Size
Neuroticism
Wild Baby Elephant
Baby’s
Baby’s
Genotype
Phenotype
Trait: Hearing ability
 Trait Summary: (2-3 sentences)
 Dominant “Wild” Trait: (H)
 Recessive Trait: (h)
Offspring Trait Probability
Captive
Wild
% Captive with dominant trait: _____
% Captive with recessive trait: _____
% Wild with dominant trait: _____
% Wild with recessive trait: _____
Trait: Tusks
 Trait Summary: (2-3 sentences)
 Dominant “Wild” Trait: (T)
 Recessive Trait: (t)
Offspring Trait Probability
Captive
Wild
% Captive with dominant trait: _____
% Captive with recessive trait: _____
% Wild with dominant trait: _____
% Wild with recessive trait: _____
Trait: Smell
 Trait Summary: (2-3 sentences)
 Dominant “Wild” Trait: (S)
 Recessive Trait: (s)
Offspring Trait Probability
Captive
Wild
% Captive with dominant trait: _____
% Captive with recessive trait: _____
% Wild with dominant trait: _____
% Wild with recessive trait: _____
Trait: Metabolism
 Trait Summary: (2-3 sentences)
 Dominant “Wild” Trait: (M)
 Recessive Trait: (m)
Offspring Trait Probability
Captive
Wild
% Captive with dominant trait: _____
% Captive with recessive trait: _____
% Wild with dominant trait: _____
% Wild with recessive trait: _____
Trait: Skin Thickness
 Trait Summary: (2-3 sentences)
 Dominant “Wild” Trait: (F):
 Recessive Trait: (f):
Offspring Trait Probability
Captive
Wild
% Captive with dominant trait: _____
% Captive with recessive trait: _____
% Wild with dominant trait: _____
% Wild with recessive trait: _____
Trait: Tusk Muscles
 Trait Summary: (2-3 sentences)
 Dominant “Wild” Trait: (E)
 Recessive Trait: (e)
Offspring Trait Probability
Captive
Wild
% Captive with dominant trait: _____
% Captive with recessive trait: _____
% Wild with dominant trait: _____
% Wild with recessive trait: _____
Trait: Ear Size
 Trait Summary: (2-3 sentences)
 Dominant “Wild” Trait: (R)
 Recessive Trait: (r)
Offspring Trait Probability
Captive
Wild
% Captive with dominant trait: _____
% Captive with recessive trait: _____
% Wild with dominant trait: _____
% Wild with recessive trait: _____
Trait: Neuroticism (the tendency to get stressed easily)
 Trait Summary: (2-3 sentences)
 Dominant “Wild” Trait: (N)
 Recessive Trait: (n)
Offspring Trait Probability
Captive
Wild
% Captive with dominant trait: _____
% Captive with recessive trait: _____
% Wild with dominant trait: _____
% Wild with recessive trait: _____
Discussion Questions:
1) How many of the captive baby’s traits are the “wild” dominant trait? How does this
compare to his captive parent’s traits?
2) How many of the wild baby’s traits are the “wild” dominant traits? How does this
compare to his “wild” father’s traits?
3) Why do you think it is important for scientists to bring in wild elephant sperm? How will
this affect the captive elephant gene pool’s dominant traits over time?
4) Some behaviors are linked to genes and some are linked to the environment.
Conservation to help protect elephant lives leads elephants to have a very different
habitat in captivity than they would in the wild. List 2 ways the habitats differ