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Bee Breeding Lab: Selection Index & Gene Banking (2D)

2D companion to the 3D apiary lab: build a weighted selection index across four traits, watch truncation selection pick the top ~20% of colonies as breeders, and bank their genetics across generations.

Entomology & Insect Behaviour2DModerate60 FPS📱 Mobile-adapted⇄ 3D version
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This 2D companion runs the same breeder's-equation genetics as the 3D version on a plain canvas grid: 64 hives are colored red-to-green by their live selection index, the top ~20% ring gold and beam toward an insemination station, and clicking a hive shows its four raw trait scores. Advancing a generation nudges every colony's traits toward the breeders' mean by heritability h²=0.35 plus small mutation, and banks a frozen vial per generation in the gene-bank strip along the bottom.

⚙ Under the hood

2D bee breeding lab with a weighted selection index across four traits, truncation selection of the top 20%, and a breeder's-equation generation-advance step (h²=0.35) that banks genetics over time.

bee breedinggeneticsselection indexinstrumental inseminationgene bank

2D · HTML5 Canvas 2D · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install

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