Natural Selection and Selective Breeding Test 25Q

What is the advantage of having different shaped beaks?

• To look different from other species.

• To be able to eat the food readily available in the environment.

• To protect itself against predators.

• To protect itself against prey.

Why are advantageous traits more likely to be passed onto offspring?

• Because they are more likely to survive and reproduce.

• Because they come from dominant alleles.

• Because they come from recessive alleles.

• Because the trait is an acquired phenotype.

The purpose of selective breeding is to

• Get bigger animals

• get smaller animals

• create animals and plants with desirable traits

• create animals with bad traits

An adaption is:

• a characteristic that helps a population of species survive and reproduce

• a characteristic of one male that allows him to become the dominant animal of the herd

• When one organism lives longer than any other organism in its population

• a change that occurs quickly within a species

Which of these would be considered an adaptation of an animal that lives in the snowy tundra?

• Large webbed feet

• A thick coat of fur and blubber

• Green scales

• A diet that consists of pineapples and coconuts

Which is an example of Selective Breeding?

• Letting dogs choose their own mate

• Crossing a Labrador with a Poodle to create a Labradoodle

• Giraffe's long neck

• Trimming the fur of a door to help it look cute.

What is required for selective breeding to occur?

• variation of traits, human selection and time

• variation of traits, competition in nature and time

• good luck finding a mate

Which statement is true of artificial selection or selective breeding

• It's TOTALLY different from Natural Selection

• Basically the same, but humans select the traits, not nature

• It is related to the traits of animals, NOT plants

• It does not produce offspring

Moths use camouflage to hide on trees. The environment changed and light moths were eaten. This is -----

• an example of pollution

• an example of natural selection

• an example of selective breeding

• an example of bad luck

Why is variation important for a population?

• variation allows species to survive change in the environment

• Without variation, selective breeding could not occur

• Without variation, natural selection could not occur

• All of the above