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Selective breeding has improved food production due to only the best foods being produced. Animals are specially selected by how much of something they are producing, so breeding two animals with higher quality foods will make more animals producing the same quality products.
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∙ 14y agoDuring selective breeding, the chromosomes of two organisms are taken, having one of he desired qualities. As a result, a new individual develops which has the important qualities of both the parents. In animals, especially dairy animals, selective breeding helps in obtaining a breed which can be used for meat as well as for laying eggs. In plants, hybridization has helped in developing very useful breeds of wheat which are high yielding as well as occupy lesser area.
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∙ 13y agoWith recent advances in genetic technology, a breeder can now chose two mates who will guarantee specific traits in an offspring. Before this technology, breeders had to make decisions based off of the physical appearance of the animal and pedigrees of previous generations to calculate the likelihood of a trait appearing in the offspring. Now it is much easier to find the perfect male and female for the desired traits as a simple DNA test can determine dominant and recessive alleles and many other aspects of genetics.
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∙ 12y agoFarmers use selective breeding to keep desirable traits in livestock.
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What process is a common practice that has been used by farmers for hundreds of year to develop new plant and animal varieties?
It is called selective breeding.
What term is used to refer to the breeding of improved varieties of plants and animals?
It's Selective Breeding! Just found out for school.
How does knowing about inheritance help farmers and food produce?
Farmers learned to be careful in choosing the plants and animals used for breeding. The breeding of plants or animals with desirable traits in order to produce more offspring with those traits is called selective breeding. Using selective breeding results in better crops.Some of the crops resists pests and diseases.Other crops are bigger,stay fresh longer, or taste better.
How is selective breeding used?
by mating animals cloely toghether
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.
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.
How do you use artificial selection in a sentence?
Artificial selection, also called selective breeding, is a form of human intervention in plant or animal evolution.
What selective breeding technique used to breed purebred racehorses is?
inbreeding
What is selective breeding used for?
Creating an animal or plant with the desired traits selected.
Is selective breeding used in nature to provide change over time?
evolution
Why is selective breeding used in fruit trees?
Many farmers and breeders use selective breeding because they need as good a young as they can get. Breeders often use selective breeding because they want the best looking animal they can get- this involves using the two best of his animals (one male, one female) and breeding them toghether to get an almost guarenteed good outcome. Farmers use selective breeding because they often want the biggest animal they can get- a small cow wont sell for as much as a larger cow. This is why they use selective breeding to get a good outcome, instead of a small animal that wont earn its keep and more :)
Do people have used selective breeding to produce many different dog breeds?
yes
