Select the correct answer.
Which of these is an example of selective breeding?
A.
A scientist places bacteria in a Petri dish treated with antibiotics and observes what happens to the population over time.
B.
A farmer plants tomato seeds that have been genetically modified to be pest resistant in his garden.
C.
A farmer only allows trees that produce tart apples to reproduce until he has a population that only produces tart apples.
D.
A scientist uses the genetic material from a unicellular organism to create an exact copy of that organism.
Seletive breeding means only nuture one specific kind of species. In answer C, the farmer only allows trees produce tart apples to reproduce, so the answer is C.
