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Dog Breeding Center

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COMBINED RATING

4.1 Stars

TEACHERS (177)

4.3

STUDENTS (34881)

3.8

LENGTH

20 Minutes

GRADES

Description

Welcome to the Dog Breeding Center! You are sorely needed in our quest to fulfill our customer's request for dogs with specific traits. Use your extensive knowledge on artificial breeding to breed dogs with the traits that the customer needs. Stay strong because it might take a few generations to achieve the dog you are looking for, but with a little genetic luck you can do it.

Vocabulary Words

artificial selection

inbreeding

traits

genetics

Instructions

Play through this interactive game to learn about Artificial Selection via Selective Breeding. Suitable for Grade 10, Grade 8, Grade 9.

Main Concepts

Sexual reproduction requires two parents.

Sexual reproduction improves the genetic variation of a species.

Selective breeding can influence natural selection if a selectively bred organism breeds with a wild organism.

In sexual reproduction, the offspring inherits half of its genetic material from its mother and half from its father.

In sexual reproduction, the offspring are genetically distinct from their parents.

In natural selection, the traits most beneficial to an organism's survival are passed on, while in artificial selection, the traits most desirable to humans are passed on.

Evolution occurs because genomes change over time, causing new traits in a species and eventually the formation of a new species.

Domesticated animals have been selectively bred by humans to live in close proximity to humans.

Artificial selection occurs when humans choose the breeding patterns of organisms to produce desired traits in offspring.

Discussion Questions

Before the Game

What is selective breeding? How is selective breeding different from natural selection?

After the Game

In the simulation, if you wanted to have a dog with a better bark what type of dogs did you breed? How was artificial selection demonstrated in the game?