Natural Selection/Selective Breeding

Selective breeding is where ___________ decides which traits should be passed on

• Nature

• A human

• Mrs. Yezak

• The illuminati

Natural selection

• Happens in nature without human involvement

• Humans control the process to obtain desirable traits

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When farmers breed specific plants to produce fruits with specific traits

• Natural Selection

• Selective Breeding

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When organisms have advantageous traits that help them survive and reproduce this is...

• Natural Selection

• Selective Breeding

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

• Evolution
• Natural Selection
• Extinction
• Artifical Selection

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Why are advantageous traits more likely to be passed onto offspring?

• Because they are more likely to survive and reproduce.

• Because humans like and choose them

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What process is being shown in this image?

• Selective Breeding

• Natural Selection

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The overall function of selective breeding is to

• Create organisms with desirable traits

• Create bigger 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

The purpose of selective breeding is to

• Create animals and plants with desirable traits

• Get smaller animals and plants

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