Selective Breeding
Selective breeding is the process by which humans breed plants and animals for particular genetic characteristics.
What is a risk associated with selective breeding?
What is Selective Breeding?
"Selective breeding is the process of choosing animals or plants with desirable traits and breeding them to produce offspring with those traits."
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Artificial Selection
Choosing parents with the desired characteristics and breeding them together.
Choosing the best offspring and breeding them again over many generations.
Used for food crops, domestic dogs, and disease resistance.
Risks: Can lead to "inbreeding" where some breeds are particularly prone to disease or inherited defects.
Selective breeding has been practiced for thousands of years, long before we understood modern genetics.
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