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Horse breeding for specific desired traits is an example of which type of evolutionary evidence?

• Artificial selection
• Embryology
• Fossils
• Biochemical molecules

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allows selected individual genes to be transferred from one organism into another and also between non-related species. (GMO)

• GMO

• genetic modification

• gene therapy

• genetics

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The purpose of selective breeding is to

• Get bigger animals

• Get smarter animals

• create animals with traits desirable to humans

• create animals that will never go extinct

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13) What would increase the money made by farmers in North Carolina through biotechnology?

• Tomatoes that are different in color.

• Tomatoes that are smaller.

• Tomatoes that taste the same.

• Tomatoes that are resistant to disease.

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Which is an example of artificial selection?

• Birds with different beaks

• A cheetah passing on the strong gene

• A person choosing which dogs to breed

• A plant passing on strong roots

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Selective Breeding

• Is a slight difference in an inherited trait of individual members of a species.

• Is an adaptation that enables a species to blend in with its environment.

• The breeding of organisms for desired characteristics.

• The resemblance of one species to another species.

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Which is an example of scientists using biotechnology to benefit aquaculture?

• creating pest-resistant crops

• making new forms of human antibiotics

• developing a rot-resistant gene for trees

• producing a faster-growing salmon species

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__________ is the process in which humans choose the desired traits of an organism. 

• Artificial selection
• Natural selection
• Variation
• Biology

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An example of selective breeding is

• a dog breeder mating 2 dogs to make more dogs

• a person pollinates 2 white rose plants to only create white roses

• a farmer grows bees to pollinate the plants on his farm

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What selective breeding food crops might a farmer select?

• plant produces the least amount of grain

• plant was the most disease resistant

• the plant was the smelliest plant

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