Hunger Games Analysis

Hunger Games Analysis

In this lab we demonstrated evolutionary conclusions by simulating the competition for food. We split the class into three different beak types; knucklers, pinchers, and stumpys. Then we each competed to get food, or corks. If you collected a certain amount of food, then you could reproduce. Your offspring's traits were determined by a coin toss.  The pinchers were the best at capturing food, because they could use their opposable thumb and pointer finger, which are easy and normal to use.  The population did evolve. I know this because the stumpy population drastically changed. In round two, all nine of the stumpys were dead. The bird beaks and individuals that survived were not random, because their characteristics allowed them to survive.  The coin toss, simulating meiosis, was completely random. I think the result would have been different if the food was bigger because the advantage would have gone to the stumps. If it were smaller, still the pinchers.  Maybe if a species's prey evolves, then they must too in order to be able to feed. Yes, because that would remove the knuckles. If they were removed, the population would consist of only pinchers. Natural selection is one of the processes that results in the evolution of a species. Individuals started to cheat, or strategize in order to get more food. This would change the allele frequency because it could allow weaker alleles to survive longer. In evolution the animal evolves. Natural selection occurs on phenotype because though it does change allele frequency in a population, it does not genetically change them. I do not have any questions.