Check for Understanding - Artificial Selection
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- Q1
What is artificial selection?
Animals breeding without any human involvement
Plants growing faster in nature
Choosing specific animals or plants to reproduce for desired traits
The process of animals learning new behaviors
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Who controls artificial selection?
Farmers and scientists
The animals themselves
Wild animals
The weather
30s - Q3
Which of the following is an example of artificial selection?
Trees growing in a forest
Fish swimming in the ocean
Farmers choosing the biggest fruits to plant seeds from
Birds building nests
30s - Q4
What is a common goal of artificial selection?
To let plants and animals grow naturally
To slow down plant growth
To keep all plants the same size
To create plants and animals with specific traits
30s - Q5
How does artificial selection differ from natural selection?
Artificial selection happens in the wild
Natural selection is faster than artificial selection
Artificial selection happens without human help
Humans decide which traits are passed on in artificial selection
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What is genetic engineering?
Letting plants grow faster naturally
Crossing different plants without changing their genes
Changing the genes of an organism to give it new traits
Selecting the strongest animals for breeding
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How is genetic engineering different from artificial selection?
Artificial selection is faster than genetic engineering
Genetic engineering directly changes an organism’s genes in a lab
Genetic engineering does not involve any changes to DNA
Artificial selection happens inside a lab
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