Selective Breeding and Natural Selection

When nature "selects" a variation, that means that the trait:

• Gets passed along from generation to generation

• Causes the population to shrink

• Has brought about a new species

• Helps prey escape predators

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Which is an example of selective breeding?

• A giraffe's long neck to get more food from tall trees

• Clipping a horse's tail so it's not too long.

• Training a horse to run faster in a race.

• Cross breeding a labrador retriever with a poodle to get a service dog that is hypoallergenic.

An example of selective breeding is

• a dog breeder mating 2 dogs to make more dogs

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

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

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What selective breeding food crops might a farmer select?

• plant produces the least amount of grain

• plant was the most disease resistant

• the plant was the smelliest plant

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Why is the mouse population changing over time?

• The light mice can reproduce more successfully than the dark mice

• The hawks eat more dark mice than light mice because the dark mice taste better

• The hawks eat more light mice because they can see the light mice more easily, so the dark live longer and reproduce more.

• The hawks eat more dark mice than light mice because they can see the dark mice more easily

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What process is being shown in this image?

• Variation

• Natural Selection

• Selective Breeding

• Homeostasis

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Who was the Scientist most famous for his study of natural selection and evolution?

• Theodor Schwann

• Robert Hooke

• Charles Darwin

• Rudolf Virchow

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Another word for selective breeding is ____________.

• heredity

• evolution

• natural selection

• artificial selection

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Fruits and vegetables in a grocery store is an example of......

• natural selection

• selective breeding

• both natural selection and selective breeding

• none of these are correct

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Dogs are an example of:

• A common ancestor

• Selective breeding

• The natural pace of evolution

• Extinction rates rising

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