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What is selective breeding and why would it be done?

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Is the process by which humans use animal breeding and plant breeding to selectively develop particular phenotypic traits. So males and females will sexually reproduce and have an offspring together.

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Selective breeding be nearly impossible without a wide variation of species. This is usually done to create a specific breed of animals.


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