Natural selection and evolution review

The purpose of selective breeding is to 

• Get bigger animals
• get smaller animals
• create animals with desirable traits
• create animals with bad traits

All of the following statements are reasons for selective breeding except:

• To produce offspring with desirable characteristics
• Farmers increase their profit by improving crops
• To improve the quality of food products
• To increase migration patterns

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A farmer has bred his pineapple plants from the sweetest pineapples from his last harvest to get even sweeter pineapple plants. What is this an example of?

• Selective breeding
• Natural selection
• Extinction
• Mutagenesis

Which scientist is given credit for the theory of evolution by natural selection?

• Gregor Mendel

• Ben Franklin

• Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

• Charles Darwin

"Survival of the Fittest" is a good way to describe which theory?

• natural selection

• selective breeding

Where humans have bred organisms together based on traits we like.

• Evolution
• Natural Selection
• Extinction 
• Artificial Selection

Which is another term for selective breeding?

• Artificial selection
• Natural Selection
• Intelligent selection

Organisms within a population have genetic differences in their traits called.

• Genotypes
• Variation
• Natural Selection
• Heterozygous

When every organism of a species has died.

• Evolution
• Natural Selection
• Extinction
• Artificial Selection

Where the better adapted organisms survive to pass traits along to offspring.

• Evolution
• Natural Selection
• Extinction
• Artifical Selection