Hunger Games Lab

1. In this lab, we simulated a real world population. There were three different genotypes. There were pinchers, knucklers, and stumpees. The pinchers and the knucklers had an advantage over the stumpees. 
2. The pinchers were the best at catching food because they could pick up the food the easiest with the least effort. 
3. Our population evolved, at first there were nine stumpees, but at the end there were only one or two.
4. How the stumpees had a disadvantage wasn't random. The way that certain people picked up food was random. Some people were better at picking up food that others. There was also that kuncklers seemed to only want to mate with knucklers so that affected the population as well 
5. If there was more food, the results might have been different. The stumpees would have more to gather before the others took them, and more of them might have survived
6. The results would have been different if there wasn't complete dominance.The stumpees would have probably all died out and only the pinchers would have survived. There wouldn't have been any knuckers. 
7. Natural selection is what causes evolution. Only the best traits survive and are passed on.
8. The way certain people picked up food, helped them survive. One person, used their hood to gather food, which made it a lot easier. This might have helped the knuckler population, which was why it remained really high. 

BIG IDEA: Only the best evolves. Natural selection acts on the phenotype. It selects if the phenotype makes it possible to survive, and then it gets passed on.

corks were used as "food"