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🧬 Advanced Bee Breeding: Selection, Insemination & Conservation

Run a virtual queen-breeding station: score a drone pool on a weighted selection index, instrumentally inseminate a queen with chosen drone semen, and bank surplus genetic diversity in a cryopreservation vault.

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A virtual queen-breeding station: a pool of colour-coded drones is ranked by a weighted selection index, the top scorer is instrumentally inseminated into a queen, and surplus genetics are cryopreserved in a gene bank vault.

🔬 What It Demonstrates

Drone genotype is visualised as an RGB colour (honey yield / Varroa resistance / gentleness); the breeding station glows brightest around the top-ranked candidate and instrumentally delivers its genetics to the queen, exactly as a real breeding programme selects and inseminates.

🎮 How to Use

Pick a selection-index trait, set pool size and inbreeding coefficient, and watch ranking, offspring colour blending and gene-bank vials respond. Toggle instrumental insemination and the cryo vault on or off.

💡 Did You Know?

Modern honeybee gene banks cryopreserve drone semen in liquid nitrogen at around −196°C, letting breeders reintroduce genetics from rare or endangered subspecies decades after the original colony has died.

⚙ Under the hood

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3D · Three.js / WebGL renderer · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install