Natural and Artificial Selection

Where the better adapted organisms survive to pass traits along to offspring.

• Evolution
• Natural Selection
• Extinction
• Artifical Selection

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A trait is :

• a removal
• a characteristic
•  a change
• a sequence

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

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

• Dogs

• Panda bears

• Snakes

• Jellyfish

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Artificial selection takes

• a shorter period of time than natural selection

• a longer period of time than natural selection

• the same amount of time as natural selection

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Artificial selection is also known as

• natural selection

• selective hearing

• genetic manipulation

• selective breeding

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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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