Artificial Selection & Natural Evolution — NEET Biology
🔥 Predicted for NEET 2027Man has bred selected plants and animals for agriculture, horticulture, sport or security. Man has domesticated many wild animals and crops. This intensive breeding programme has created breeds that differ from other breeds (e.g., dogs) but still are of the same group. It is argued that if within hundreds of years, man could create new breeds, could not nature have done the same over millions of years?
Adjacent to a frequently-asked paragraph in the same chapter.
A lineage shows “branching descent” with increasing “reproductive fitness.” Which observations support this? 1. “Those who are better fit… leave less progeny than others.” 2. Breeds produced by “intensive breeding” remain same species. 3. “All the existing life forms share similarities and share common ancestors.”
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Correct answer: C — 2 and 3 only
Fitness → more progeny not less progeny, artificial selection shows within-species variation, common ancestry implies branching.
What does NCERT say about Man has bred selected?
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