Today we got back to business as usual with a reading about evolution, genetics, and selective breeding. You can access it from the National Geographic website: http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2011/03/taming-wild-animals/ratliff-text
This activity will go through Thursday.
If you need the questions:
1.What was the goal of the fox breeding program?
2.What are some of the behaviors the domesticated foxes expressed? How did their physical appearance change?
3.Can you domesticate an animal through training? Why? or Why not?
4.What problems did the Siberian fox breeding program face in the beginning?
5.When Trut points out the aggressive foxes, she explains that the aggressiveness is in the genes. What proof does she provide for this assertion?
6. What types of records or data does Kukekova keep regarding the foxes?
7. Why does the paper published in Behavior Genetics claim that “Domestication, appears to be a very complex phenotype.”?
8. Where do Andersson and Trut differ in their theories?
9. What is TSHR?
10. If you were a scientist at the Siberian Fox institute, what questions would you like to investigate?
