Genetics

I was cleaning out my cupboard at school today and found this from an end of year review last year.  A student in my class had been asked to explain genetics.  Maybe it's just me, but I think it's hysterical (then again, I have been at work for eleven hours...)

"Genetics is where your parents have a baby.  The baby gets some of its moms cells and some from the lucky mate that married the girl.  The baby starts out a a cell and the cells get bigger and bigger and they tell each other to form into a body.  They you will be a boy or a girl in your mom's stomach.  Then you come out of your mom's and go home.


"Then you become older and play sports or cheer like your dad and mom and all that stuff.  Then you go to college, meet a girl.  Then go through the same hard process.  Then you have kids and they also start out as a cell.  Then they grown in the girl's stomach.  Then comes out.  You also get half of your mom's cells and half of dad's cells."

And there you have it.  The circle of life--jocks, cheerleaders, the hard process of finding the "lucky mate," only to have those cells in the mom's stomach have to start it all over.

Finally, it is all making sense....
Wow.  And all those years, all I had to do was ask a fifth grader.  ;)