Artificial Selection – Flashcards
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What is artificial selection?
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Artificial selection is when someone breeds one type of animal, e.g. dog, with another kind of that animal to create a new breed of that animal that contains the characteristics of the two previous breeds of that animal.
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Another way of explaining artificial selection?
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Artificial selection is human intervention in animal or plant reproduction or survival to allow any individuals with desired traits to produce, also known as selective breeding.
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Where can selective breeding be useful for farmers?
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To create the best breed of a certain animal, e.g, stronger cows, healthier sheep.
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Where can selective breeding be useful for genetic diseases?
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To eliminate disease for the next generation of the breed
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Where can selective breeding be useful for plants?
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For desired colour and good taste or size.
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How else can selective breeding help a breed?
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Preventing extinction within a breed
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Where can selective breeding help race horses
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By breeding them to get faster and stronger horses for racing.
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What can selective breeding do for mosquitoes and other insects which carry a poison/disease?
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Get rid of them.
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How does artificial selection link with variation and alleles?
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They all have a genetic occurrence happening, causing there to be slight differences in the characteristics of the offspring of the species.
