Artificial Selection

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

1. The process of choosing parent organisms for desired characteristics is called

• natural selection

• Artificial selection

• random selection

• genetic manipulation

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Artificial selection is also known as

• natural selection

• selective hearing

• genetic manipulation

• selective breeding

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What is this an example of?

• natural selection

• artificial selection

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What is this an example of?

• natural selection

• artificial selection

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The altering of corn to produce more kernels with much more sugar is an example of:

• Natural Selection, hybrid breed
• Selective/Artificial Breeding, hybrid breed

It is very common for yellow labs to have bad hips. This is because owners want purebred yellow labs who are good hunting dogs.  This is an example of 

• Natural Selection
• Selective breeding

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Evidence shows that the wolf is the ancestor to all of the breeds of dogs shown below. How did this variation arise in a relatively short period of time?

• Selective/Artificial Breeding

• Natural selection

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A farmer sales his beef by the pound.  How can the farmer produce cattle that have more beef, so that he can increase his profit?

• Natural Selection rids the herd of sick cattle.
• Selective breeding, choosing the largest cows to breed.

When humans breed 2 organisms with specific traits to influence the traits of the next generation, it is __________.

• Selective/Artificial Breeding
• Natural Selection

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