natural selection vs artificial selection

Question 1

Artificial Selection

Answer 1

selective pressure from humans on populations in order to improve or modify desirable traits
Ex. selective breeding, cows producing more milk, chickens with more meat and corn with juicier kernels

Question 2

Consequences of Artificial Selection

Answer 2

genetic diversity is reduced by creating monocultures

Question 3

Monoculture

Answer 3

planting of the same variety of species over a large portion of land

Question 4

Selective Pressure

Answer 4

when certain environmental conditions select for certain characteristics in some individuals and against different characteristics in another individual

Question 5

Fitness

Answer 5

the contribution an individual makes to the gene pool of the next generation by producing offspring that can survive long enough to reproduce