B.10 Selective Breeding

Question 1

What is yield?

Answer 1

The amount of useful plant part on a single plant.

Question 2

What is a species?

Answer 2

A group of organism with similar traits that can reproduce with each other.

Question 3

What is variety?

Answer 3

Subset of species (ex.Lettuce-Romane and iceburg)

Question 4

What are traits?

Answer 4

Things that make a plant different from varieties of its species.

Question 5

What is selective breeding?

Answer 5

Selecting plants with specific traits and reproducing them.

Question 6

What are some examples of things humans do to increase plant yield?

Answer 6

Using greenhouses, using pesticides, irrigation and using fertilizers.

Question 7

What are potential negatives of selective breeding?

Answer 7

-Heightens the risk of desease (inbreeding=desease)
-Must rebuild your crop
-Reduces gene pool
-Could accidently produce a super weed

Question 8

What is genetic engineering?

Answer 8

Adding genes(Materials in a cell for specific traits) to an organism to change its traits.