Artificial Selection

The purpose of selective breeding is to 

• Get bigger animals

• get smaller animals

• create animals with desirable traits

• create animals with bad traits

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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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Artificial Selection decreases diversity which is bad because

• organisms with same traits will refuse to reproduce with each other

• organisms with all the same traits are susceptible to extinction.

• organisms with the same traits will be very aggressive

• organisms with same traits collectively get smarter and will some day rule the world

All artificial selection or "selective breeding" is good

• True

• False

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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Whats another way to say selective breeding

• Selective generation

• Natural selection

• Artificial selection

Selection that was done at the hands or humans and not nature

• Natural selection

• selective breeding

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Selective breeding

• Has been used to improve domestic plants and animals for human benefit so that they may provide larger quantities of food or better quality

• Help organisms survive

• Helps organisms reproduce

• Acts on an organism’s phenotype, or observable characteristics, but it is the organism’s genotype (genetic makeup) that is inherited

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What is the primary goal of artificial selection?

• To increase genetic diversity

• To produce organisms with desired traits

• To allow natural evolution

• To eliminate all genetic mutations