Multiple choice

Selective breeding of domesticated animals shows that:

  1. Natural selection can cause evolution

  2. Similarities in structure can occur by adaptive radiation

  3. Similarities in structure can occur via convergent evolution

  4. Artificial selection can cause evolution
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Explanation

Selective breeding (artificial selection) demonstrates that human-guided selection of desirable traits can rapidly change the heritable characteristics of a population, providing direct evidence that selection can drive evolutionary change.

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