Document Type
Curriculum Resource
Publication Date
Spring 3-8-2020
Keywords
Lesson Plans, Agriscience, Natural Selection, Artificial Selection, Evolution, Aninmal Science, Agriculture Education, Biology
Description
In this lesson, students will learn how natural selection and artificial selection impact both production agriculture and biological sciences. A natural selection is a mechanism that favors heritable traits that increase species survival and reproduction. Artificial selection is a selective breeding, where humans select for desirable traits in agricultural products.
Pages
49-60
Type
Teaching Module
Format
Language
English
Publisher
South Dakota State University
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License.
Recommended Citation
Clayton W. Scott and Madhav P. Nepal. 2020. Teaching Natural and Artificial Selection in Production Agriculture. ILEARN Teaching Resources. 3 (1):49—60
To accompany with Scott and Nepal 2020
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Agricultural Education Commons, Animal Sciences Commons, Biology Commons, Curriculum and Instruction Commons, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Commons