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Do people have used selective breeding to produce many different dog breeds?
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How is cross breeding different from selective breeding?
Cross breeding is simply taking two breeds of animals and mating them together (Such as a Charolais crossed with a Hereford). Where selective breeding is selecting the what two animals you want bred together to produce a better animal.
Do people use selective breeding or shared dominance to develop different dog breeds?
Using selective breeding is exactly how people produced the different dog breeds. They discovered dogs that had the characteristics or skills they wanted and bred them.
What is the name of the method used by human to create many different breeds of dogs?
Artificial selection or selective breeding.
What breeds of dog are not selectively bred?
All defined breeds are selectively bred. Maybe different breeders have slightly different goals, but as long as humans decide which dog mates with which, then it is selective breeding. Only time breeding isn't selective is when the dogs are free to mate as THEY wish. As with street dogs.
Give two reasons why people use selective breeding to change the characteristics of plants?
to help produce crops and make new breeds of amimals
What are the features that all the different breeds of dog have been developed from the wolf by selective breeding?
All the breeds have been found to howl at the moon just like the wolf.
What is the definition of selective breeding?
Selective breeding is when you mate specific plants or animals to pass on a certain genetic trait they may have. For example, if you have two horses with very strong hearts then you may want to breed them so that their offspring may also have a strong heart. Farmers use selective breeding to breed the best plants and animals for feeding, selling or breeding.
Is the technique of selective breeding what has led to deformities in certain dog breeds?
Inbreeding
What is the technique of selective breeding that has led to deformities in certain dog breeds?
inbreeding
What term is used to describe the deliberae mating of two different breeds of animals to produce offspring with particular characteristics?
This is most commonly known as "selective breeding". It is also called "artificial selection" in an evolution sense.
Is selective breeding used to improve the phenotype of plants?
Yes. Selective breeding is also used to improve or otherwise change breeds of dogs, cats, horses, cows, and so forth.
Which of the following have been produced by selective breeding A horse breeds B cat breeds C dog breeds D all of the above?
Humans have selectively bred all of these: A horse breeds B cat breeds C dog breeds Scientists also cloned-bred Dolly, a Finn Dorset sheep. Dolly was born July 5th, 1996, at the Roslin Institute in Edinburgh, Scotland. Clone-breeding raised many controversies about cloning, while breeding raises few controversies UNLESS the breeding is known to produce defects in offspring.
