Artificial Selection

What is Artificial Selection?

• animals and plants adapt to their environment

• humans select the animal or plant parent with desirable traits mate and reproduce

• also known as fake breeding

True or False: Artificial Selection is also called selective breeding?

• True

• False

what is a breed?

• a type of fancy bread

• animals or plants that are not part of the same species

• domestic plants or animals that have similar traits and appearance

why do humans breed dogs? (multiple answers)

• for their looks

• for their desired abilities

• dogs take over the human population

• to have a variety of dogs

True or False: Natural Selection is the same as Artificial Selection?

• True

• False

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In natural selection....

• humans breed animals and plants over time

• animals pick and choose what traits they want to pass down

• animals and plants change naturally over time passing down traits

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Are the bird beaks an example of natural selection?

• Yes

• No

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Are these plants an example of artificial selection?

• Yes

• No

Who is called "the father of genetics"

• Gregor Mendel

• Albert Einstein

• Charles Darwin

What was Gregor Mendel known for? ( Nathaniel's Homie )

• Creating the first mutation

• he created the theory of survival of the fittest

• Cross breeding a tall pea plant with a small pea plant

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