Selective Breeding

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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Another name for Selective Breeding is

• Evolution

• Natural Selection

• Extinction

• Artificial Selection

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Problems with animals that are inbred include:

• Being more disease resistant

• Producing more meat

• Being more likely to suffer from genetic disorder

• Being more genetically diverse

What is Inbreeding

• When two closely related animals are bred together

• When two none related animals are bred together

• When animals are allowed to chose their own mates

• When humans choose which animals will mate together

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How can farmers best use selective breeding to increase apple production?

• By limiting the number of trees growing so they can have more space.

• By choosing trees that are the largest in size.

• By increasing the amount of water and fertilizer the trees receive.

• By choosing trees that consistently have the most apples.

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A farmer has bred his pineapple plants from the sweetest pineapples from his last harvest to get even sweeter pineapple plants. What is this an example of?

• Selective breeding
• Natural selection
• Extinction
• Mutagenesis

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A scientist inserts a gene into an apple that makes it resistant to drought from a bacteria. What is this an example of?

• Genetic engineering
• Natural selection
• Mutagenesis
• Genetic screening

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Which term refers to a farmer choosing the best corn from this year to plant next year?

• natural selection
• selective breeding
• genetic engineering
• genetic transformation

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It is very common for yellow labs to have bad hips. This is because owners want purebred yellow labs who are good hunting dogs. This is an example of

• Natural Selection

• Inbreeding

• Hybridization

• Fossil Record

Member of a population of genetically identical cells produced from a single cell (Dolly the sheep is our most famous example)

• clone

• transgenic organism

• hybridization

• fraternal twin