Thursday, February 10, 2011

Toothpick Fish Lab Analysis

     In all four generations, the largest part of the population was colored green.  Since it was dominant over all other colors, and yellow fish were killed, green fish were even more dominant.  There were little orange fish, but they didn't completely dissapear, because there were still two yellow alleles in the genes in the end.  During the disaster during the fouth generation, since most of the population was green and eaten, almost all the fish were killed.  There was a total of one red fush and one orange fish that survived, almost completely wiping out the fish.
     If this project were to be changed, the end, during the disaster, could wipe out the non-dominant colored fish.  It could kill the orange or red fish, giving a more mimimal impact to the population.  This would give a whole different end result to the lab, eliminating red and yellow alleles instead of green.  Keeping the green alleles would theoretically give all the fish the green alleles that allow them to survive, making a larger population.

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