8th Grade Assessment LS4-5

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1. What do artificial selection and natural selection have in common?

• They are both methods for passing on traits
• They both occur in the natural world
• They can both be used for gene therapy
• They both can both be controlled in a laboratory

2. Aspects of selective breeding include

• Producing hybrids
• Producing varieties of fruit
• Animal husbandry
• Producing new dog breeds
• All of these

3. GMOs stand for

• Genetic mutation Organism
• Genetically mutated operators
• Genetically modified organism
• Germinating modified

4. Gene therapy

• Can currently cure hundreds of inherited diseases
• Uses a virus to pass genetic information
• Is used to create hybrids
• All of these

5. There are ethical and environmental questions regarding

• A. Artificially producing hybrids
• B. Producing crops with GMO
• Both a and b
• None of these

6. Proponents of GMOs say that GMOs can help

• Provide crops that are self-watering
• Produce more food for a hungry world
• Produce crops that will plant and harvest themselves
• Produce plants that look good but do not taste very good

7. Selective breeding can be used to produce

• A. Physical traits
• B. Behavioral traits
• Both a and b

How are Artificial and Natural selection similar?

What is one explanation for the difference in fossil organisms between layer A and Layer D?