Selective Breeding – Quiz

1. The offspring from a cross between two genetically dissimilar parents is referred to as a purebred.

2. The process of selecting parents is called natural selection.

3. When many organisms end up having similar genomes due to constant inbreeding , genetic diversity increases.

4. Selective breeding is the preferential breeding of organisms with desirable characteristics.

5. Continuous inbreeding of particular genes runs the risk of irreversibly losing some of the other genes from the gene pool.