DPM # 3 Review

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

• natural selection

• mutation

• camouflage

• adaptation

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The differences among a species, like different bird beaks, are called

• genes.
• variations.
• traits.
• theories.

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

• Nature

• A human

• Mrs. Yezak

• The illuminati

When farmers breed specific plants to produce fruits with specific traits

• Natural Selection

• Selective Breeding

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In asexual reproduction, all of the offspring are:

• Physically Identical
• Genetically Identical
• Physically and Genetically Identical
• Not Identical

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Which statement best describes the process of asexual reproduction?

• new organisms are usually genetically identical to the parent
• the reproductive cycle involves the production of games
• nuclei of sex cells fuse to form a zygote
• it involves the production of genetic copies 

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