Artificial 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

All artificial selection or "selective breeding" is good

• True

• False

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

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A physical feature or behavior that helps an organism survive in its habitat.

• adaptation

• natural selection

• selective breeding

• artificial selection

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The turtle that has the toughest shell survives longer and reproduces more than the turtle with the softer shell. This is ...

• natural selection

• selective breeding

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When DNA is manipulated and moved from one source to another it is known as

• genetic engineering
• electrophoresis
• gene therapy
• GMO