Question

Discuss how artificial and natural selection have similar components. Aspects of their differences, site a number of examples for both

Answer 1

Artificial selection is when a deciding factor, such as people, get to choose which organisms reproduce. An example would be a farmer who selectively cultivates his/her crops to get certain traits that the farmer desires from these plants. Another example would be chickens, which are bred to get meatier chickens for a demanding supply of chicken meat. Natural selection is when organisms that are better adapted to survive in their environment pass on their genes to their offspring. An example would be Charles Darwin and his study of the finches Galapagos islands. All the finches had a common ancestor, but their beaks were highly adapted to different food sources based on the island environment they lived on. That means that these birds had bred to the terms of natural selection and evolved to be better suited to their food source. Natural selection and artificial selection are similar because they both involve taking two organisms and having them reproduce to create something new.