Selective Breeding

Selective breeding is...

• a process to create an organism with desired traits from parents with those desired traits

• natural method of producing offspring with desired traits

• creating a new species

• making organisms reproduce during times of stress

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An example of selective breeding is

• a dog breeder mating 2 dogs to make more dogs

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

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

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One problem with selective breeding is

• creating a new species

• gene variety is lost

• extinction of a species

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Increasing helpful traits to an organism is one way a breeder may use selective breeding.

• True

• False

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Which of these is the first step in selective breeding flowers.

• Repeat the process only with the offspring with the desired traits

• watch the seeds grow

• Choose plants that have the desired trait to pollinate

• chose which trait is desirable

Which of these is the second step in selective breeding flowers.

• Choose which trait is desirable

• Watch the seeds grow

• Choose plants that have the desired trait to pollinate

• Repeat the process only with the offspring with the desired traits.

Which of these is the third step in selective breeding flowers.

• Choose which trait is desirable

• Watch the seeds grow

• Choose plants that have the desired trait to pollinate

• Repeat the process only with the offspring with the desired traits.

Artificial Selection is

• making a new species

• making varieties of the same species

• only occurs in a laboratory

A mutation

• is always bad for an organism

• is always good for an organism

• is a change in an organism's DNA

• never changes an organism

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A dog breeder breeds a german shepherd dog with a poodle to create a dog that has traits of both varieties of dogs. This is an example of...

• artificial selection

• selective breeding