S3S8 Artificial Selection

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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A trait is :

• a removal
• a characteristic
•  a change
• a sequence

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To inherit means:

• To receive
• To change
• To create
• To give

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part of DNA that codes for a specific trait

• gene

• chromosome

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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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