Artificial Selection & Genetic Technologies

The process of choosing parent organisms for desired characteristics is called

• natural selection

• Artificial selection

• random selection

• genetic manipulation

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What is an example of artificial selection?

• Letting dogs choose their own mate

• Letting plants pollinate on their own

• Crossing a labrador and a poodle to create a labradoodle

Artificial selection has been a big factor in the evolution of:

• Dogs

• Panda bears

• Snakes

• Jellyfish

Which statement is true comparing natural selection and artificial selection?

• In natural selection, traits benefit humans and in artificial selection, the traits benefit the species

• In natural selection, traits benefit the species and in artificial selection, the traits benefit humans

• In natural and artificial selection, the process takes hundreds of years to occur

• In natural and artificial selection, nature determines what traits will be passed down to offspring.

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The following is a similarity between artificial selection and natural selection

• Takes hundreds of years

• Humans determine traits

• Nature determines traits

• Offspring are produced

Artificial selection is also known as

• natural selection

• selective hearing

• genetic manipulation

• selective breeding

When nature selects and species with beneficial adaptation survive and produce offspring

• natural selection

• artificial selection

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When humans select desirable traits to be passed down to offspring

• natural selection

• artificial selection

All artificial selection or "selective breeding" is good

• True

• False

Artificial Selection is

• a new concept

• discovered by Darwin and used ever since

• used for thousands of years

• a 19th century concept