B.10 Selective Breeding

Question 1

What Is yield?

Answer 1

Yield is the amount of useful plant part on a single plant.

Question 2

What is a species?

Answer 2

Species is a group of similar organisms.

Question 3

What is a variety?

Answer 3

Variety is different types within a species.

Question 4

What are traits?

Answer 4

Traits are things that make a plant different from varieties of its species. (ex. shape, color, taste)

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 green houses using pesticides irrigation and using fertilizers .

Question 7

what are potential negatives of selective breeding?

Answer 7

• could produce plants that all could die from a bad pest or disease. OR *could accidently produce super weeds

Question 8

What is genetic engineering?

Answer 8

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

Question 9

What is the species and traits of iceberg lettuce?

Answer 9

Its a type of lettuce (species) and its traits are crunchy and mildly sweet.

Question 10

What species is Flint Corn and what are the traits?

Answer 10

The species it comes from is corn and its tough and durable, used for popcorn

Question 11

what species and traits are granny Smith apples?

Answer 11

species = apples.
Traits= sour taste and crunchy