Selective Breeding (Artificial Breeding)

The purpose of selective breeding is to 

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

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

• Evolution
• Natural Selection
• Extinction 
• Artificial Selection

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The evolution of dogs from wolves is due to:

• Natural Selection
• Sexual Selection
• Artificial Selection
• Vestigial Structures

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Which is another term for selective breeding?

• Artificial selection
• Natural Selection
• Intelligent selection

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The overall function of selective breeding is to

• Create organisms with desirable traits
• Create bigger organisms
• Create smaller organisms
• Create animals with more genetic mutations

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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

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Evidence shows that the wolf is the ancestor to all of the breeds of dogs shown below. How did this variation arise in a relatively short period of time?

• A.  Genetic manipulation
• Natural selection
• Random chance
• Selective breeding

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Problems with selective breeding include

• Better animals
• More Meat
• Animals can have bad health problems
• more diversity

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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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