You visit a pet store and decide to purchase a male guppy that has red,blue and green colors on its fins and tail.Your guppies at home do not have this combination of colors and you would like to own some that do.You place the new male in with three females for mating purposes.After three weeks you have many new baby guppies and with the new color combination! This is an example of which type of selection?
A)Natural.
B)Environmental.
C)Analogous.
D)Convergent.
E)Artificial.

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This is an example of artificial selection because the decision to breed the male guppy with the desired coloration with specific females for the purpose of creating offspring with the desired color combination was made by the individual (the pet owner) rather than by nature.

You Visit a Pet Store and Decide to Purchase a Male