Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Toothpick Fish

In this lab, in completed recently I experimented with genes, alleles, phenotype, genotype, and the environment with toothpick fish. There are four different fish with different alleles. There are green, red, yellow, and orange. Green is dominant, red and yellow are recessive and orange is incomplete dominance (red and yellow make orange).  In this lab, I had to make four different generations, to do that I had to pick randomly from a cup and add up the offspring. If two yellows were paired they would be eaten immediately, and go into the morgue. The generation next would have one less box because the yellow allele/fish is in the morgue.
        The first generation has eight green fish, one red fish, zero yellow fish, and two orange fish. The second generation has seven green fish, one red fish, one yellow fish, and two orange fish. The third generation has six green fish, one red fish, zero yellow fish, and four orange fish. The fourth generation has seven green fish, one red fish, zero yellow fish, and two orange fish. Now, there is a natural disaster, all the rocks and sand are now exposed and are good camouflage for the red ,yellow, and orange fish but not the green, all the green are eaten. The only survivors are one red fish, and two orange fish.