Natural Selection vs Artificial Selection

 According to natural selection, which organisms are most likely to survive?

• The fastest organisms
• The biggest organisms
• The best-adapted organisms
• The most domesticated organisms

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 What is 1 way selective breeding is DIFFERENT from natural selection?
(Selective breeding is also called artificial selection.)

• Selective breeding does not produce any offspring at all.
• Humans, not nature, control reproduction in selective breeding.
• Nature, not humans, controls reproduction in selective breeding.
• Animals are the only organisms that can be selectively bred, while both plants and animals can undergo natural selection.

When humans breed 2 organisms with specific traits to influence the traits of the next generation, it is __________.

• selective breeding
• natural selection

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This sequence of pictures of a population of mice in the wild BEST represents _______. 

• natural selection
• selective breeding 
• inbreeding (selective breeding that crosses two organisms with similar genetic traits. )
• asexual reproduction

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“People identify the trait they want, then only allow animals with that trait to breed with one another.” BEST matches:

• Asexual Reproduction

• Natural Selection

• Selective Breeding

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

• Evolution
• Natural Selection
• Extinction
• Artifical Selection

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Process by which individuals that are better suited to their environment survive and reproduce most successfully; also called natural selection.

• Survival of the Fittest
• Extinction
• Derived trait
• Artificial Selection

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Which option is the best example of environmental pressures that cause natural selection?

• Ranchers breeding cows
• Farmers creating bigger corn
• Climate and Predators 
• Artificial Selection 

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What is the definition of natural selection?

• The process in which genes are chosen by humans such as farmers and ranchers

• The process in which organisms are chosen by environmental pressures such as climate, available food, predators and habitat.

• If an organism changes during their life in order to adapt to its environment, those changes are passed on to its offspring.

• The process in which genes are chosen by scientist and academics.

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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