U3M2L3 "Artificial Selection"

What is an example of artificial selection?

• Letting dogs choose their own mate

• Letting plants pollinate on their own

• Crossing a labrador and a poodle to create a labradoodle

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1. Artificial selection has been a big factor in the evolution of:

• Dogs

• Panda bears

• Snakes

• Jellyfish

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The following is a similarity between artificial selection and natural selection

• Takes hundreds of years

• Humans determine traits

• Nature determines traits

• Offspring are produced

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Which statement is true comparing natural selection and artificial selection?

• In natural selection, traits benefit humans and in artificial selection, the traits benefit the species

• In natural selection, traits benefit the species and in artificial selection, the traits benefit humans

• In natural and artificial selection, the process takes hundreds of years to occur

• In natural and artificial selection, nature determines what traits will be passed down to offspring.

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Artificial selection takes

• a shorter period of time than natural selection

• a longer period of time than natural selection

• the same amount of time as natural selection

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Artificial selection is also known as

• natural selection

• selective hearing

• genetic manipulation

• selective breeding

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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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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

• Mitosis

• adaptive radiation

Evidence show that all breeds of dog are the descendants of wolves. How did the huge variety of dogs arise in a few hundred years.

• Genetics modification

• Natural selection

• Random chance

• Selective breeding

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What is recombinant DNA

• DNA from 2 different organisms combined

• DNA from 2 different ribosomes

• DNA that is separated out from a vector

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