Hunger Games Final Analysis

1. We demonstrated competition between animals by trying to collect the most cork/food, and stimulated natural selection, where those with the best traits suited in the environments live, and the losers die.

2. The phenotype best in the lab was the knucklers, because they had the highest population, compared to the other species, meaning they were very successful in capturing food

3. Yes, the Population evolved, since the pinchers, which most people thought would do the best, were beaten by the knucklers, who had the higher population.

4. The placement of the food, where you were standing, having a good physical ability, a unique tool and what type you could reincarnate are random, while the amount you could get, the alleles in the gene pool, and what percentage would die ( since the more food needed to survive, the lower the population ) are not that random

5. If the food was bigger, then knucklers would be out of the picture, and stumpies may have a chance at survival, but if the food was smaller, then the knucklers would have a bigger advantage over the pinchers, making them the most likely to survive and reproduce. In nature, this can easily show natural selection when an event occurs that gives a species a chance to dominate.

6.  If there was no incomplete dominance, then there would be no way to revive species that may have died out, like the stumpies or the knucklers. The gene pool would be vastly different if there were no incomplete dominance.

7. In natural selection, only the population with the best traits in the current environment survive and reproduce. This is part of Evolution, where species undergo constant change in order to adapt to the environment.

8. Some people used their hoods in order to carry the food, or were faster than most people. This in reality would not affect the allele frequency, since the trait, if not a gene trait, would not be passed down to others. If it was, then the offsprings would get the traits and many other traits. In nature, this allows species to adapt to environments better, increasing evolution

9. The species that is most likely to reproduce and become the highest population is going to evolve. Natural selection affects the genotype only. Only the genes get passed down