{"id":209,"date":"2025-08-29T03:26:24","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T03:26:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/jdulce\/?p=209"},"modified":"2025-08-29T03:26:24","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T03:26:24","slug":"draw-me-a-cell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/jdulce\/2025\/08\/29\/draw-me-a-cell\/","title":{"rendered":"Draw me a cell!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/jdulce\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39332\/2025\/08\/IMG_9444-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"627\" data-id=\"210\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/jdulce\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39332\/2025\/08\/IMG_9444-1024x627.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/jdulce\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39332\/2025\/08\/IMG_9444-1024x627.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/jdulce\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39332\/2025\/08\/IMG_9444-300x184.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/jdulce\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39332\/2025\/08\/IMG_9444-768x470.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/jdulce\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39332\/2025\/08\/IMG_9444-1536x940.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/jdulce\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39332\/2025\/08\/IMG_9444-2048x1253.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/jdulce\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39332\/2025\/08\/IMG_9444-600x367.jpg 600w, https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/jdulce\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39332\/2025\/08\/IMG_9444-945x578.jpg 945w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>My field of interest within biology is genetics. So for my drawing, I drew an egg and a sperm, which are reproductive cells. Reproductive cells are important to genetics because they carry genetic information from one generation to another. In genetics, we look at our genes, and our genes give us our traits. Half your genes come from one parent, while the other half comes from the other. It is when an egg and sperm combine during fertilization that the offspring inherit their genes from their parents!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My field of interest within biology is genetics. So for my drawing, I drew an egg and a sperm, which are reproductive cells. Reproductive cells are important to genetics because they carry genetic information from one generation to another. In&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/jdulce\/2025\/08\/29\/draw-me-a-cell\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31223,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wds_primary_category":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/jdulce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/jdulce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/jdulce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/jdulce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31223"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/jdulce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/jdulce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":211,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/jdulce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions\/211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/jdulce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/jdulce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/jdulce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}