HMH Module D, Unit 3, Lesson 1: Artificial Selection

Scientist have created larger and sweeter strawberries for humans to consume (eat). What process was used?

• Natural Selection 
• Artificial Selection 
• Cellular Respiration 
• Environmental Natural Selection 

When a farmer breeds only his or her best livestock, the process involved is.......

• natural selection

• artificial variation

• artificial selection

• survival of the fittest

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Someone has a wild cat breed with a house cat in order to have a cat that looks wild but is more gentle. This is__.

• Genetic Modification
• Gene Therapy
• Animal Husbandry
• Selective breeding

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Choosing which organisms can have offspring is_____.

• Selective Breeding
• Gene Modification
• Gene Therapy
• Animal Husbandry

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How might artificial selection be used to increase the

amount food crops, such as corn, produced?

• It can be used to increase the amount of food by making more food and what you like in that food so you can have more of it

• An organism is genetically modified by taking out one little dna to put it back in with the one you want

• Provide additional nutrients, resist insects herbicides and diseases, and provide enough food for the growing population

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Two tomato plants are cross pollinated to produce tomato plants that produce more tomatoes.

• genetic engineering

• selective breeding

The intentional reproduction of individuals in a population that have desirable traits.

• artificial selection

• genetic engineering

• selective breeding

Breeders select two parents that have beneficial phenotypic traits to reproduce, yielding offspring with those desired traits.

• artificial selection

• genetic engineering

• selective breeding

The Aztecs and Maya Tribes of Mexico where some of the first humans to slowly change wild corn to the corn we know today. What process did these tribes use?

• Natural Selection
• Artificial Selection "Selective Breeding"
• Mitosis
• Cell Membrane

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A German Shepard would probably not survive in the wild because...

• the dog is mixed.
• the dog is a product of artificial selection and not adapted for the wild.
• the dog is dumb.
• the dog is a product of natural selection and can survive in the wild.

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