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Thursday, February 10, 2011

The fish in the stream

I analyzed the many fish in the stream and have studied the first, second, third, and fourth generation of alleles and noticed that there are more chances to get green alleles than the red, yellow, and orange ones because it can camouflage well in the algae. There is a very slim chance to get a red and yellow allele combination. Orange is more possible to find because it has red and yellow alleles combined. This is because the red and yellow were incomplete dominant, incomplete dominance-noun, the appearance in a heterozygous trait that is intermediate between either of the trait's homozygous phenotypes. The yellow fish is slim to pick as well because it is easily found in the stream and is eaten, making it rare to find. When the environmental disaster occurred, out of the fish that were left in the third generation, six died leaving four in the stream. I have also found that two red fish can't reproduce a green fish because the red fish is recessive and can't make a dominant green fish. Yet the two orange fish can make a red fish because there would be a 25% chance of a red recessive fish, also, when two green fish mate they can't make orange offspring because there are no red or yellow alleles involved in a green fishes alleles. During the third generation not all the yellow alleles were gone, yet the fish population decreased because the fish would be found in the stream and be eaten or found dead, this would effect the fish, this can happen in real life and in the wild. Therefore there was only two fish that died up to the third generation. The population in the fourth generation, after the disaster, made the population decrease tremendasly by six fish because the green fish weren't able to camouflage in the algae anymore. So there is 8 dead fish through the four generations of alleles. The group that dissapeared by the fourth generation were the green fish alleles because after the disaster they didn't match the backround in the water and were killed.

After I noticed that the population decreased, I also noticed it would slow down reproduction with less fish to mate. This means the population wouldn't increase over a short period of time, it would take a long period of time. So this would mean lack of food for the organisms that ate the fish. When a lack of food happens to the other organism that ate the fish, they would begin to starve, then die. Their population soon decreases as well as the fish and could become extinct. But when population reproduction increases there is more food. When there is more food population for the other organisms that would eat the fish their population would increase. The food chain would, with reproduction, go back to normal and may get better over the years. This can happen with all animals and is a serious risk in the food chain.

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