Natural Selection and Selective Breeding

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What is Natural Selection?

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Natural Selection is the process where organisms better adapted to their environment tend to survive and produce more offspring.

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What is the advantage of having different shaped beaks in birds?

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Different shaped beaks allow birds to eat the food readily available in their environment.

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What does the theory of evolution by natural selection imply?

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It implies that the inherited traits of a population change over time.

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What is Selective Breeding?

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Selective Breeding is the process where farmers or breeders choose specific organisms with desirable traits to reproduce.

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What is Variation in the context of Natural Selection?

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Variation refers to the differences in traits among individuals in a population.

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How does Natural Selection lead to Evolution?

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Natural Selection leads to Evolution by favoring the survival and reproduction of individuals with advantageous traits, gradually changing the population over generations.

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What is the role of inherited traits in Natural Selection?

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Inherited traits are passed from parents to offspring and can affect an organism's ability to survive and reproduce.

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What is the difference between Natural Selection and Selective Breeding?

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Natural Selection occurs naturally in the wild, while Selective Breeding is a human-directed process.

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What is an example of Selective Breeding?

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An example of Selective Breeding is a farmer choosing the best corn plants to produce seeds for the next planting.

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What is Extinction?

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Extinction is the end of an organism or a group of organisms, often due to inability to adapt to changing environments.