Natural and artificial selection

Question 1

What is the definition of natural selection?

Answer 1

The process when a population’s characteristics change over generations with heritable traits increasing an organism’s chances of reproduction and survival.

Question 2

What happens in natural selection?

Answer 2

through reproduction (cell division), organisms pass on their alleles(DNA) to their offspring.

Question 3

What MUST exist in a population for selection to occur?

Answer 3

species diversity

Question 4

natural selection vs artificial selection

Answer 4

Natural selection is the impact of the environment on organisms survival, artificial selection is the impact of humans on the organism’s traits that are most desirable

Question 5

Advantages of artificial selection

Answer 5

it is easier to manage fields when we select only one important crop that needs to be grown for our survival

Question 6

Disadvantages of artificial selection

Answer 6

With new diseases this could result in it’s spreading and killing of the rest of the population