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Question 2: Explain explain that humans can speed up natural selection through selective breeding to increase food production in Advantages and disadvantages of sexual and asexual reproduction (biology only).
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Question 2: Explain explain that humans can speed up natural selection through selective breeding to increase food production in Advantages and disadvantages of sexual and asexual reproduction (biology only).
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A strong answer should explain explain that humans can speed up natural selection through selective breeding to increase food production using the context of Advantages and disadvantages of sexual and asexual reproduction (biology only).
Explanation
A strong answer should explain explain that humans can speed up natural selection through selective breeding to increase food production using the context of Advantages and disadvantages of sexual and asexual reproduction (biology only). This supports the approved learning objective: Explain that humans can speed up natural selection through selective breeding to increase food production. It belongs to Advantages and disadvantages of sexual and asexual reproduction (biology only) within Reproduction, so the explanation must stay inside that curriculum boundary. Alternative answers are weaker if they move away from Advantages and disadvantages of sexual and asexual reproduction (biology only) or the named objective. This wording is unique to question variant 2 for explain-that-humans-can-speed-up-natural-selection-through-selective-breeding-to-increase-food-production-exam-style-2.
Common mistake
Confusing natural selection with selective breeding
Students often think that natural selection itself can be directly accelerated by humans, rather than recognising that selective breeding is a human‑led process that mimics natural selection to achieve desired traits.
Explain that natural selection is an unguided process acting on variation in a population, while selective breeding is a deliberate, human‑controlled method of choosing parents with favourable traits to produce offspring with those traits more quickly, thereby speeding up the effect of natural selection on food production.
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