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- 1. Multiple Choice
The purpose of selective breeding is to
Get bigger animals and plants
Get smaller animals and plants
Create animals and plants with desirable traits
Create animals and plants with bad traits
- 2. Multiple ChoiceAll of the following statements are reasons for selective breeding except:To produce offspring with desirable characteristicsFarmers increase their profit by improving cropsTo improve the quality of food productsTo increase migration patterns
- 3. Multiple Choice
Another name for Selective Breeding is
Evolution
Natural Selection
Extinction
Artificial Selection
- 4. Multiple Choice
The evolution of domestic dogs from wolves is due to:
Natural Selection
Sexual Selection
Artificial Selection
Vestigial Structures
- 5. Multiple Choice
When selective breeding food crops what might a farmer select for?
The plant the produced the most grain
The plant the produced the largest sized grain
The plant that was the most disease resistant
The plant that was the smallest
The smelliest plant
- 6. Multiple Choice
Evidence shows that the wolf is the ancestor to all of the breeds of dogs shown below. How did this variation arise in a relatively short period of time?
Genetic manipulation
Natural selection
Random chance
Selective breeding
- 7. Multiple Choice
Problems with animals that are selectively bred include:
Being more disease resistant
Producing more meat
Being more likely to suffer from genetic disease
Being more genetically diverse
- 8. Multiple Choice
To breed a cow that produces a lot of milk a farmer would breed:
Two cows that produce a lot of milk
A cow and a bull that produce a lot of milk
A cow who produces a lot of milk and a bull who's mother produced a lot of milk
The biggest cow and the biggest bull
- 9. Multiple Choice
What is Inbreeding
When two closely related animals are bred together
When two none related animals are bred together
When animals are allowed to chose their own mates
When humans choose which animals will mate together
- 10. Multiple Choice
Problems with inbreeding include:
Less Genetic Diversity
Smaller animals
More Genetic diseases
The Population are more likely to be vulnerable to the same microbial diseases
You can charge more for inbred dogs
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