Natural Selection and Selective Breeding

A green rat snake that lives in the grass and a brown rat snake that lives in the desert is a form of _______________.

• Human Genetic Modification

• Selective Breeding

• Natural Selection

• Artificial Breeding

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Which statement is incorrect about natural selection?

• A single organism can adapt to a cold environment by growing longer hair.

• Over time organisms with longer hair will survive better in cold environments.

• Humans are not involved in the natural selection process.

• The offspring of each generation will likely be more adapted to the environment.

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Which is not a result of selective breeding?

• Large seedless watermelons that consumer demand

• Bright oranges that are all about the same size

• An insect that matches the color of the environment

• A dog that has been bred to have short hair

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Which best describes 'survival of the fittest'?

• Only the organisms that are strongest and most adapted to the environment will survive.

• Only the tallest organisms will survive

• All light colored organisms will survive

• Only organisms that work out will survive

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What word describes a trait that helps an organism survive in its environment?

• natural selection

• mutation

• camouflage

• adaptation

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What word describes the process of having the advantageous traits that helps an organism survive  and reproduce?

• natural selection
• adaptation
• mutation
• genetic engineering

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All mutations and adaptations usually lead to what process?

• selective breeding
• behavioral
• natural selection
• genetic engineering

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Why do frogs and other organism reproduce so many eggs or offspring?

• so that their babies can have friends to play with
• the more offspring the more likely the offspring will survive
• the more offspring the less likely offspring will survive 
• the more offspring the less competition

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Which organisms are most likely to survive?

• the best adapted
• the fastest
• the strongest
• the most domesticated (tamed)

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Almost all adaptations started off as?

• selective breeding
• physiological
• structural
• mutation

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