| Term | Definition |
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| What is selective breeding? | An effort to improve crops and domesticate animals by breeding individuals with desireable traits. |
| What are three methods of selective breeding? | Artificial selection, Inbreeding, hybridization |
| How are inbreeding and hybridization opposites of each other? | Inbreeding is when you mate closely related individuals and in hybridization you mate individuals who are not closely related. |
| How is artificial selection like natural selection? | Natural selection isn't controlled by any organism its contolled by nature while artificial selection can be controlled by an organism. |
| Give an example of each kind of the methods of selective breeding. | Artificial selection: growing crops on a farm Inbreeding: The toyger |
| List 3 pros and cons to selective breeding. | Pros: enhance desireable traits, creating new varieties of species, its relatively simple. Cons: takes a long time, populations are homologous, more risk of disease. |
| What is genetic engineering? | Process of making changes in the DNA code of living things. |
| What are the three steps to genetic engineering? | Isolate: to find the set of alleles Cut: to cut out segments Insert: Insert the new |
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