Selection

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

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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Artificial selection is also known as

• natural selection

• selective hearing

• genetic manipulation

• selective breeding

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When humans select desirable traits to be passed down to offspring

• natural selection

• artificial selection

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The primary difference natural and artificial selection is

• In nature selection the “pressure” comes from the environment; In artificial selection the “pressure” comes from humans (or another species).

• In artificial selection the “pressure” comes from the environment; In natural selection the “pressure” comes from humans (or another species).

• Natural selections is when humans breed the animal; Artificial selection is when humans direct genes directly.

• They are different terms for the same concept.

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

• Dogs

• Panda bears

• Snakes

• Jellyfish

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The purpose of selective breeding is to 

• Get bigger animals

• get smaller animals

• create animals with desirable traits

• create animals with bad traits

Why are advantageous traits more likely to be passed onto offspring?

• Because they are more likely to survive and reproduce.

• Because they come from dominant alleles.

• Because they come from recessive alleles.

• Because the trait is an acquired phenotype.

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Natural Selection is driven by a change in the environment and survival of the

• Smartest

• Fastest

• Most well adapted

• Biggest

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

• Evolution

• Natural Selection

• Extinction

• Artifical Selection

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