3cd Common Assessment Review

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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An example of selective breeding is

• a dog breeder mating 2 dogs to make more dogs

• a farmer grows bees to pollinate the plants on his farm

• a person pollinates 2 white rose plants to only create white roses

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One problem with selective breeding is

• creating a new species

• gene variety is lost

• extinction of a species

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

• True

• False

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All of the following statements are reasons for selective breeding except:

• To produce offspring with desirable characteristics
• Farmers increase their profit by improving crops
• To improve the quality of food products
• To increase migration patterns

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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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Which is another term for selective breeding?

• Artificial selection
• Natural Selection
• Intelligent selection

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Problems with selective breeding include

• Better animals
• More Meat
• Animals can have bad health problems
• more diversity

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A bison has teeth that ate adapted for grazing or eating grasses. Suppose a disease were to kill off all the grasses in a region where the bison live. What would likely happen to the bison?

• They would adapt to eating a different kind of plant.

• They would evolve into a new species

• They would eventually die from lack of food

• They would not be affected.

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What must all species do in order to survive?

• change its behavior

• change its environment

• change its location

• adapt to changes in its environment

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