Selective Breeding vs. Natural 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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Which is an example of SELECTIVE BREEDING ?

(also called artificial selection)

• A giraffe’s long neck.

• Training a horse to run faster.

• Clipping a horse’s tail so it is not too long.

• Cross breeding a labrador retriever with a poodle.

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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

Natural selection

• Happens in nature without human involvement

• Humans control the process to obtain desirable traits

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

• selective breeding
• natural selection