Hunger Games Lab

Hunger Games Lab

In this lab we simulated the allele variation in a way of eating food and showed how the population can shift in 1 direction or another.

The best phenotype in this situation was the pincher because they could easily pick up food, 2 at a time and had more control while the stumpies had a hard time surviving. The population evolved and it seemed to go more to the heterozygous and it seemed basically they ruled the population most of the time, but being heterozygous meant that they sometimes had one of the extremes in the end. One thing that made the lab random was that sometimes there was different years like the plastic year which didn't favor any species. I think of the food had been way larger the pinchers couldn't have picked any up and the stumpies would have thrived. If there was no incomplete dominance the stumpies would have died out almost instantly. I think natural selection drives evolution and seems to help the weed out the weak. It seemed that the only reason the stumpies survived was that they reproduced with one another. Also in big groups they can pick up lots of food.
I think in evolution the ones that are the most competitive and with the best trait survive.

My only question is that: How will determination effect this game because some people just didn't feel the need to survive?