Selective Breeding Vs Natural Selection

What is natural selection?

• a living individual that can carry out life processes

• Process by which an organism that better adapts to their environment survive and reproduce

• Process by which a community better adapts to their environment to give traits to one another within their generation.

• the time between when an organism is born and when they reproduce

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Which of the following is an example of selective breeding?

• A. Letting dogs choose their own mate.

• B. Crossing a Labrador with a Poodle to create a Labradoodle.

• C. Creating larger ears of corn.

• Both B and C

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What is most likely to happen to moth populations in the picture shown?

• Light moths--hunted easily, dark moths--population increase

• Dark moths--hunted easily, dark moths--population increase

• Light moths--hunted easily, light moths--population increase

• Lights moths will change their color to match dark moths.

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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.

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Why is the mouse population changing over time?

• The light mice can reproduce more successfully than the dark mice
• The hawks eat more dark mice than light mice because the dark mice taste better
• The hawks eat more light mice than dark mice because they can see the light mice more easily
• The hawks eat more dark mice than light mice because they can see the dark mice more easily

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Selective breeding

• organisms better adapted to their environment tend to survive and produce more offspring

• process used by humans to develop new organisms with desirable characteristics

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Which is an example of selective breeding?

• A giraffe's long neck.

• Clipping a dog's claws so it's not too long.

• Training a horse to run faster.

• Cross breeding a labrador retriever with a poodle .

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Selective breeding is where _____________ decides which traits should be passed on.

• nature

• a human

• traits

• evolution

Natural selection is where ___________ decides which traits should be passed on.

• nature

• a human

• traits

• evolution

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Another word for selective breeding is ____________.

• heredity

• evolution

• natural selection

• artificial selection

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