7.2 – Natural Selection and Artificial Selection
What is Natural Selection?
What is required in a population for natural selection to occur?
Selective pressure comes from the environment and it affects an individual’s ability to survive and pass on their genetics to future generation.
If an individual is selected for, what does that mean?
If an individual is selected against, what does that mean?
Natural selection is situational. What does that mean?
What does “fitness” mean, in terms of evolution and natural selection?
What is Artificial Selection?
Provide 2 examples of artificial selection:
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What are 2 negative consequences of artificial selection?
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What is a “gene bank” and how does it help to eliminate some of the negative consequences of artificial selection?