A punnet square is a type of tool that we use in Science. It is not a tool like a saw or hammer, it is a square with four squares in it. Why is this so helpful? It helps show What traits are going to be passed on through two parents. Mainly, we use things like KK or Kk, or even kk. Those are the traits. KK and kk are homozygeous. That means they are the same type of trait. Kk is heterozygeous. This means that it is a mixture of the two. Why we use punnet squares, is to help us decide what traits are going to be in the child. Like, lets say there is two parents. One of them is GG and the other is gg. If they had a baby, what traits would it have. This is why we use punnet squares.  The way we use them, is we put one of the pairs of traits on the top two squares of the square, and then 



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