#11 SCA & Selective Breeding Week 3 MP2

Selective breeding is...

• a process to create an organism with desired traits from parents with those desired traits

• natural method of producing offspring with desired traits

• creating a new species

• making organisms reproduce during times of stress

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NGSS.HS-LS3-1

Increasing helpful traits in an organism is one way a breeder may use selective breeding.

• True

• False

Which of these is the first step in selectively breeding flowers?

• Repeat the process only with the offspring with the desired traits

• watch the seeds grow

• Choose plants that have the desired trait to pollinate

• chose which trait is desirable

Which of these is the second step in selectively breeding flowers?

• Choose which trait is desirable

• Watch the seeds grow

• Choose plants that have the desired trait to pollinate

• Repeat the process only with the offspring with the desired traits.

Which of these is the third step in selectively breeding flowers?

• Choose which trait is desirable

• Watch the seeds grow

• Choose plants that have the desired trait to pollinate

• Repeat the process only with the offspring with the desired traits.

Artificial selection is

• making a new species

• making varieties of the same species

• only occurs in a laboratory

A mutation

• is always bad for an organism

• is always good for an organism

• is a change in an organism's DNA

• never changes an organism

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NGSS.HS-LS4-2

The purpose of selectively breeding animals is to

• get bigger animals

• get smaller animals

• breed animals with desirable traits

• breed animals with bad traits

Which is another term for selective breeding?

• Artificial selection
• Natural Selection
• Intelligent selection

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NGSS.MS-LS4-5

Which genotype represents a sickle cell carrier? (Remember it is recessive)

• SS
• ss
• Ss