
IS IT SELECTIVE BREEDING OR GENETIC ENGINEERING?
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AJH SCIENCE DEPARTMENT
WINTER 2025
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SELECTIVE BREEDING - "SELECTIVE" MEANS TRAITS ARE CHOSEN.
GENETIC ENGINEERING - "GENETIC" MEANS DNA IS ALTERED.
NATURAL SELECTION - "NATURAL" MEANS NATURAL.
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Multiple Choice
A horse trainer wants to make more money and has his winning male horse, who has long legs to win races, mate with female horses. The hope is the offspring will get the long legs so that the trainer can sell the horse to an owner, who will want to win a big horse race one day.
NATURAL SELECTION
SELECTIVE BREEDING
GENETIC ENGINEERING
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Multiple Choice
A biologist at an agriculture laboratory is asked to develop a better quality blueberry plant. He is given plant that produce unusually large blueberries and plant that produce very sweet blueberries.
NATURAL SELECTION
SELECTIVE BREEDING
GENETIC BREEDING
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Multiple Choice
If a person takes the gene from one dog and places it inside the body of another dog, this is an example of
NATURAL SELECTION
SELECTIVE BREEDING
GENETIC ENGINEERING
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Multiple Choice
All dogs are related to the gray wolf. How did humans create different dog breeds from one common ancestor?
SELECTIVE BREEDING
NATURAL SELECTION
GENETIC ENGINEERING
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Multiple Choice
Giraffe necks became longer as their food source got taller over time through:
NATURAL SELECTION
SELECTIVE BREEDING
GENETIC ENGINEERING
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Multiple Choice
Farmers take two fattest pigs and mate them
NATURAL SELECTION
SELECTIVE BREEDING
GENETIC ENGINEERING
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Multiple Choice
A scientist takes DNA from a species of tomato that has the best flavor and adds it to the DNA of a tomato that grows fast:
NATURAL SELECTION
SELECTIVE BREEDING
GENETIC ENGINEERING
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Multiple Choice
Whale lost their legs and moved to swimming as their environment became covered with water.
NATURAL SELECTION
SELECTIVE BREEDING
GENETIC ENGINEERING
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Scientists attempted to change the population of fish living in a lake. Fish that were “culled” were fished out and eaten. Those that were “saved” were released back into the lake to reproduce.
NATURAL SELECTION
SELECTIVE BREEDING
GENETC ENGINEERING
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I think humans have been using __________
for longer.
NATURAL SELECTION
SELECTIVE BREEDING
GENETIC ENGINEERING
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WINTER 2025
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