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Artificial selection or selective breeding describes the human selection of breeding pairs to produce favorable offspring. This applies to all organisms – from virus to four-footer, and from pet to food source.
Artificial selection is the identification by humans of desirable traits in plants and animals, and the steps taken to enhance and perpetuate those traits in future generations.
Artificial selection is an evolutionary process in which humans consciously select for or against particular features in organisms – for example, by choosing which individuals to save seeds from or breed from one generation to the next.
Farmers and breeders allowed only the plants and animals with desirable characteristics to reproduce, causing the evolution of farm stock. This process is called artificial selection because people (instead of nature) select which organisms get to reproduce.
Definition of Artificial Selection. Artificial selection, or selective breeding, is the human-driven process of breeding plants or animals to promote desirable traits in offspring by selecting specific individuals with those traits to reproduce.
Humans use artificial selection to develop organisms with useful or desirable traits. All crop plant varieties, types of livestock, and dog breeds are the result of artificial selection. Another term for artificial selection is selective breeding.
Artificial selection (also known as selective breeding) is the process by which humans use animal breeding and plant breeding to selectively develop particular phenotypic traits (characteristics) by choosing which typically animal or plant males and females will sexually reproduce and have offspring together.
Artificial selection is the process by which humans intentionally breed plants and animals for specific traits, resulting in changes in the genetic makeup of those species over generations.
artificial selection. Selective breeding of organisms to produce domesticated animals with more desirable traits; selective breeding to test for genetic variation and covariation in a...
Artificial selection is the intentional breeding of plants or animals to produce desired traits in future generations. Unlike natural selection, which occurs through environmental pressures and survival of the fittest, artificial selection is driven by human intervention, allowing specific characteristics to be enhanced or suppressed based on ...