The Mendel Lab has it\'s goals to teach you about how the information in DNA is
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Question
The Mendel Lab has it's goals to teach you about how the information in DNA is inherited to offspring from 2 sexually reproducing parents. A key concept Mendel birthed was the ability to manipulate sexual reproduction to alter future variation of offspring. This changed 12,000 years of "farming" as we knew it.
Because of Mendel, Science now understands that Evolution by Natural Selection can be changed or redefined to Evolution by Artificial Selection that was historically called "farming". Outside of farming it is a purely random process of natural selection. Nature does its thing as discussed in class. Farming and now Biotechnology is a planned process of controlling which parents alleles' can mix and be inherited. Context is important; the word "natural" does not mean "better" over "artificial". Answer:
a) Explain how the biological process is still the same between Natural Selection verse Artificial Selection, because with artificial selection (with farming or biotechnology) the only change in our knowledge of the offspring is what?
b) Biotechnology either called GMO (Genetically Modified Organism) or also called Transgenic Organism is any organism bread into existence via Artificial Selection through "farming practices". The last 12,000 yrs of Farming still carried a randomness of slowing selecting offspring compared to modern Biotechnology like GMO that only changes one gene or allele at a time in a single generation.
C. Explain how the power of Biotechnology is like a mutation. There is a single introduction of new DNA so the only change in the offspring is what?
Explanation / Answer
I shall answer the first question.
Both natural and artificial selection affect the characters transmitted from one generation to another. In artificial selection this selection is left to human intervention. This fastens the process compared to leaving it on nature and environment as in natural selection. In both cases useful variation is passed on to future generations. Both cause changes in allelic frequency in a population over time.