Various games that simulate hunting light and dark moths on contrasting backgrounds to model how environmental change can shift the frequency of traits in a population over generations.

Various online games simulate hunting light and dark moths on contrasting backgrounds. These model how environmental change can shift the frequency of traits in a population over generations.

🕹️ Online game that includes graphs of populations - Ask a Biologist: https://askabiologist.asu.edu/games-sims/peppered-moths-game/play.html

🕹️ A different online game that includes tracking of populations - University of Oxford Learning Zone: https://learningzone.oumnh.ox.ac.uk/peppered-moth-game

🕹️ Gizmos game - requires signup: https://askabiologist.asu.edu/games-sims/peppered-moths-game/play.html
https://gizmos.explorelearning.com/find-gizmos/lesson-info?resourceId=447 Video showing how to use the Gizmos game - Ms Toepel:

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• Which phenotype had higher survival on each background, and why? (Better-camouflaged moths were less likely to be detected and removed.)
• What does removing prey represent in nature, and what does replacing survivors represent? (Predation and reproduction.)
• How would results change if predators had less time or impaired vision? (Selection would be weaker; differences between phenotypes might shrink.)
• Does this simulation model evolution by natural selection? Which assumptions are simplified or missing? (Yes; it simplifies heredity, ignores genetic drift, and assumes equal reproduction among survivors.)