Humans use (blank) to select desirable breeds of animals or strains of plants to cultivate?

Question

Which choice correctly fills the (blank) in the stated question above?

a) replica plating
b) mutation
c) artificial selection
d) natural selection
e) all of the above

Answer 1

(c) artificial selection

Replica plating is a method applicable only to bacteria and small microbes (like yeast).

People traditionally do not induce new mutations in breeds of animals and plants.

Natural selection is a similar process to artificial selection, but in natural selection, environmental factors which influence survival cause the genetics of a population to change. In artificial selection, other factors, such as fruit size for plants or amount of fat v. meat for animals, can be selected for by selective breeding.

Answer 2

C. Artificial selection. When I read the question, I thought the answer was phenotype.