Artificial Selection Flashcards

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What is artificial selection?

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  • The selection of plants of animals with desirable characteristics for breeding.
  • same as selective breeding
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What is it that creates the selection pressures in natural selection?

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  • a change in the environment itself.
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In artificial selection, the selection pressure is….

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  • the humans who are picking the traits in organisms
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