it is useful to humans because if they are looking into raising a foal, to grow up to be a great race horse they would want the parents to be healthy and quite fit. Also if they wanted to raise it to be a jumping horse, they would have to mate a healthy and muscular mare with a healthy and muscular stud. Hope that helps with your question? x
Selective breeding is the process of breeding plants and animals for particular genetic traits. Typically, strains which are selectively bred are domesticated, and the breeding is sometimes done by a professional breeder. Bred animals are known as breeds, while bred plants are known as varieties, cultigens, or cultivars. The cross of animals results in what is called a crossbreed and crossbred plants are called hybrids. The term selective breeding is synonymous with artificial selection.
In animal breeding techniques such as inbreeding, linebreeding and outcrossing are utilized. In plant breeding similar methods are used. Charles Darwin discussed how selective breeding had been successful in producing change over time in his book, Origin of Species. The first chapter of the book discusses selective breeding and domestication of such animals as pigeons, dogs and cattle. Selective breeding was used by Darwin as a springboard to introduce the theory of natural selection, and to support it.
selective breeding; been going on for thousands of years. genetic engineering; been going on for decades.
In the sense that selective breeding can be considered genetic modification, humans have been genetically modifying animals since prehistoric times.
-Humans have used selective breeding for ages. Horses were originally too small to carry a human alone for any considerable distance, hence the invention of chariots, but selective breeding allowed horses to evolve to sizes that could easily carry even the heaviest passengers. Cattle were bred to produce more milk, and produce more meat. Dogs were bred to fill a variety of jobs, from farming, to hunting, to fighting.
Most of the domesticated plants and animals you are familiar with have been produced through selective breeding. Dogs, cats, cows, goats, corn, grass, tomatoes, etc .
Horse, Dog, and Cat.
Absalutly no way at ALL!
Makes you less hungry.Keep in mind that humans have been manipulating the genomes of food crops for thousands of years by selective breeding. Modern methods simply speed the process.
Yes. This has almost been done, in fact, say some. A breeding-back programme has commenced, through selective breeding of the southern Plains Zebras.
All the breeds have been found to howl at the moon just like the wolf.
It is called selective breeding.
Wolves are wild animals, dogs have been domesticated over thousands of years. Domestication is selective breeding of animals with wanted traits. People have been breeding dogs with traits of kindness towards humans. Although, some behaviors of wolves still remain in dogs, such as devotion to its pack. Feral dogs are closer to wolves however. Feral means that there has been no interaction with humans, causing a state where some dogs can become almost the same as their wild counterparts.
No. Somewhere in the mists of human history the two breeds have a common ancestor in wolves, if not in later breeds. All domesticated species of dog are known to have been created by humans selective breeding activity.