Genetics lab with beads

Genetics lab with beads.What observations can you make regarding the gene pool and gene frequency of the surviving individuals? Do the results vary between the populations represented by Beakers #1, #2 and #3? Why or why not? What observations can you make about the genetic variation between the parent and surviving populations? Suppose you have a population of 300 butterflies. If the population experiences a net growth of 12% in the following year, how many butterflies do you have? (For simplicity, assume all butterflies survive to the next year in this example) Now suppose you have 300 eggs, but only 70% of those eggs progress to become a caterpillar, and only 80% of the caterpillar progress to become an adult butterfly. How many butterflies do you have? Suppose you have a population of 150 butterflies, but a wildfire devastates the population and only 24 butterflies survive. What percent does the colony decrease by? How did the distribution of phenotypes change over time? Is there a selective advantage or disadvantage for the red and/or blue phenotypes? What phenotypic results would you predict if starting with the following population sizes? A. 1000: B. 100: C. 10: Assume that you live in a country with 85 million people that consistently experiences an annual growth rate of 4.2%. If this population continues to grow at the same rate for the next 5 years, how many people will live in the country (round to the nearest whole number). What is the remaining ratio of alleles? Have any been selected against? Given enough generations, would you expect one of these alleles to completely disappear from the popu- lation? Why or why not?Would this be different if you started with a larger population? Smaller? After hundreds or even thousands of generations both alleles are still common in those of African Ances- try. How would you explain this? The worldwide distribution of sickle gene matches very closely to the worldwide distribution of Malaria. (http://www.cdc.gov/malaria/distribution_epi/distribution.htm) Is this significant? Why or why not?