Which of These Statements Represents What Darwin Thought of Artificial

question 3

Multiple Choice

Which of these statements represents what Darwin thought of artificial selection?

• A) He reasoned that if characteristics that better enable organisms to adapt to specific environmental pressures exist, then artificial selection will tend to increase those in succeeding generations.
• B) He reasoned that if a person could select different characteristics when breeding organisms, then nature could do so as well.
• C) Humans were selecting the characteristics they wanted in the offspring by choosing parents with those traits.
• D) Humans were selecting the characteristics they wanted in the offspring by eliminating individuals that did not show these characteristics.

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Definitions:

UCR

Uniform Crime Reporting; a statistical program designed to collect and analyze data on crime reported to law enforcement agencies in the United States.

UCS

Stands for Unconditioned Stimulus in classical conditioning, an event that elicits a natural, reflexive response.

CR

In classical conditioning, the conditioned response is the learned reaction to a conditioned stimulus.

CS

Conditioned Stimulus, a previously neutral stimulus that, after becoming associated with an unconditioned stimulus, eventually comes to trigger a conditioned response in classical conditioning.