Hunger Games Lab Analyisis

1. In this lab, we simulated a population of species in which there were three different phenotypes. Through this lab, we were able to observe how different phenotypes survived better in the environment. The three phenotypes were knucklers, which had to use their knuckles to pick up food; pinchers,which had to pick up food by pinching it; and stumpys, which had to pick the food up with their wrists. This lad was representing what occurred in an environment and natural selection because the best fitted species reproduced the most.

2.The phenotype, which was best adapted, was the pinchers. This occurred because they were able to pick up the food very quickly, which resulted in them being able to pick up the most in the least amount of time.

3.The population evolved to look more like the winners. The allele frequency was of 61% to 77% for "a," which the pinchers were heterozygous recessive. We know this because the pinchers' population boomed with having 16 of the organism out of 22 in total. This shows that the population, every year, looked more like the winners than the previous years. The population also shifted from about 50/50 at the beginning to one phenotype clearly gaining offspring.

4. Like in nature there both random things and not random things. The random things included how much food was needed to survive for a year, what type of offspring the organisms would get, and also where the food was placed in the environment. The nonrandom things include how the phenotypes picked up the food.

5.The results would not have been much different if the food was larger or smaller because the pinchers would have still eaten around the same part. Their population would have just increased faster and more steadier. If there was less food, there could have been more deaths. This is similar in nature, when there is a drought, less organisms can survive because the lack of water and food.

6. If there had been no incomplete dominance, both the stumpys and the pinchers would have grown because they would have had less competition and also more food for them to eat.

7.Natural selection and evolution are close because because of natural selection, the species has to adapt and change, and some die to leave only the best, this in return leads to evolution.

8.For stumpys, they had made a strategy to lay on the ground and pick up all the food below them. The stumpys also became more of a group by working together, which led to a boom in their population. In nature, some animals adapt to have better skills and some also decide to live in groups and go searching for food together. This increases the probability of survival.

9.In evolution, almost all the organisms evolve to survive better, but some as a result are able to reproduce the most and greatly enlarge their population, while some die because of the competition and other factors.

10.I still have some questions concerning this lab. Firstly, did this lab very accurately depict what happens in most environments, or this is just a case that can only be seen in some environments? Last but not least, does evolution occur everywhere in the world?