4 Natural selection and genetic modification

Practice questions on Natural selection and genetic modification

• Explain how the three-domain system differs from the five kingdom classification system in… (4 marks, Explain)
• A population of snowshoe hares lives in a forest that receives heavy snowfall in winter. S… (4 marks, Explain)
• A population of giraffes living on the African savanna feeds on leaves from trees. Over ma… (4 marks, Explain)
• Explain how natural selection could lead to a population of rock pocket mice living on dar… (4 marks, Explain)
• Explain why Carl Woese developed the three-domain system to replace the five kingdom class… (4 marks, Explain)
• Describe how taxonomy is used to classify a named organism, referring to the correct order… (4 marks, Describe)
• Explain why scientists place a mushroom and a rose plant into different kingdoms in the fi… (4 marks, Explain)
• Explain why all animals, plants, fungi and protoctists are placed together in the domain E… (4 marks, Explain)
• Explain how genetic engineering can be used to produce a crop plant that is resistant to i… (4 marks, Explain)
• Explain how selective breeding could be used to develop a new variety of wheat that produc… (4 marks, Explain)
• Explain how antibiotic-resistant bacteria can develop in a population of bacteria through … (4 marks, Explain)
• Explain how a population of peppered moths could change over time so that dark-coloured mo… (4 marks, Explain)
• Describe how genetic engineering could be used to produce bacteria that make human insulin… (4 marks, Describe)
• Explain how selective breeding could be used to produce a breed of dog with a gentle tempe… (4 marks, Explain)
• Describe how selective breeding could be used to produce a breed of cattle that yields a l… (4 marks, Describe)