In the Toothpick Fish lab that we have done in Science class, my partner and I have learned many things. We have learned that the fish population is always decreasing because of threats in the ocean such as sharks and many other things as well. First, I am going to talk the data that we have collected. In the first generation, we have had 8 green fish, 1 red fish, 2 yellow fish, and 1 orange fish. The interesting thing about the first generation was that 67% of the fish in this generation were green. In the second generation, there were 7 green fish, 1 red fish, 2 yellow fish, and 2 orange fish. The third generation had 7 green fish, 2 red, 0 yellow, and 1 orange. Finally, in the fourth generation, there were 6 green, 2 red, 3 yellow, and one orange. That means that there were actually less fish in the gene pool because all of the fish that were yellow died since they were too visible in the ocean and gotten eaten.
In the fourth generation, there was an environmental disaster, Factory dump is put into the ocean and all of the seaweed and algae died. After the disaster, all of the green fish died and are moved to the morgue, I thought that that was interesting because most of the fish were green, and the yellow fish were gone as well. In the end, there were only 3 survivors and all of them were red. If this lab was different than what it was now, maybe the yellow or the red toothpicks could be dominant and the green would be recessive. If that happened, the color of the survivor would be different. This was a fun experiment and I have learned a lot about alleles with it.
