Advanced Production: Selective Breeding

Where humans choose which individuals of a population mate so that, over generations, all individuals offspring have only the traits that humans prefer

• Selective breeding (also known as artificial selection)

• Gene Therapy

• Gene Splicing (production of Transgenic / Genetically Modified Organisms)

• Cloning

Farmers identified characteristics in wild plants that they wanted to keep and planted seeds from those plants, gradually emphasizing certain traits and producing various crops with the biggest, tastiest traits

• Selective breeding (also known as artificial selection)

• Gene Therapy

• Gene Splicing (production of Transgenic / Genetically Modified Organisms)

• Cloning

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Which is a goal of selective breeding?

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• To increase the value of species to humans

• To produce species that resist disease

• To produce species with desired traits

• To make specific changes to the DNA code.

The purpose of selective breeding is to

• get bigger animals

• get smaller animals

• create animals with desired traits

• create animals with bad traits

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Look at the picture of the wild mustard plant. What is the best way to explain all of the plants that are related to it now?

• Bees only pollinated plants with certain traits.

• Different types of dirt helped the plant grow differently.

• Humans chose mustard plants with certain traits to breed together.

• They are not related.

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Which is another term for selective breeding?

• Environmental selection

• Natural selection

• Artificial selection

• Intelligent selection

Which of the following is NOT an example of selective breeding?

• allowing only the largest chickens to reproduce

• crossing two varieties of grapes to create Cotton Candy grapes

• mating a calm horse to an exotic-looking zebra

• allowing cats to mate once a year

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Pugs used to have longer snouts but due to pure breeding they tend to have shorter noses and difficulty breathing. This is an example of which type of artificial selection?

• Selective breeding

• Inbreeding

• Hybridization

Breeding a strong donkey with a docile horse to produce offspring with both desirable traits is an example of -

• hybridization.

• inbreeding.

• segregation.

• genetic engineering.

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Dog breeds are maintained by -

• inbreeding.

• selective breeding.

• hybridization.

• genetic engineering.

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