Domestication of Plants and Animals quiz
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Which wild cat are all pet cats descended from?
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Where were peanuts first domesticated?
Answer: South America
Why: The farmed peanut is a hybrid of two wild peanut species that grow in the Andean foothills of Bolivia and Argentina.
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What can dogs digest much better than wolves?
Answer: Starch
Why: Wolves usually carry two copies of the starch gene AMY2B, while dogs can carry anywhere from four to thirty.
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How many kernels grow on one ear of maize's wild ancestor?
Answer: 5 to 12
Why: Each teosinte kernel is locked inside a stone-hard case, while maize kernels sit bare on the cob.
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Which wild duck are most farm ducks bred from?
Answer: Mallard
Why: The main exception is the Muscovy duck, a separate species that people tamed in Mexico and South America.
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What country first grew peaches?
Answer: China
Why: The name Prunus persica points to Persia because Europeans long trusted Roman accounts that peaches came from there.
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Where were humped zebu cattle first domesticated?
Answer: Indus Valley
Why: Zebu come from a separate Indian strain of the aurochs, tamed apart from the humpless cattle of the Near East.
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