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Selective breeding is a category that has genetic engineering in it. while selective breeding is choosing a trait or feature to breed on, genetic engineering is a man made change in a subjects genes

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Methods for developing organisms with desirable traits?

1. Selective Breeding - the 2 types of breeding is Hybridization and Inbreeding2. Cloning - when you copy exactly the same genes as the organism from which it is produced3. Genetic Engineering - Genes from one organism are transferred into the DNA of other organism's. Usually for medicines and food crops


How is selective breeding different from genetic engineering?

Genetic Engineering allows scientists to transfer genes from one organism to an organism of a different species; and in Selective Breeding organisms within the same species with certain desirable characteristics are mated to produce a new variety. The difference between the two is in Genetic Engineering manually transfers genes between species and Selective Breeding mates varieties within the same species to produce a new variety.


Which method would be the best way of producing a similar plant for a friend explain your answer?

Definitely NOT cloning. If you used cloning, the new plant would be EXACTLY the same, not similar. You could use genetic engineering or selective breeding. If you used genetic engineering, you could choose one trait and take that gene and put in the new plant, so the new plant would be similar, but not exactly the same. If you used selective breeding, you could use inbreeding or hybridization. If you bred your plant with another plant with similar characteristics, [inbreeding], the result would be almost the same as your original plant and if you used hybridization, the new plant would be completely different. I would use genetic engineering, because you can pick specific traits and take those genes and put them into a new plant, so it will have some of the same traits but not all, and it will be similar but not exactly the same.


What are the similarities between inbreeding and genetic engineering?

Genetic engineering is the combining of DNA from different species and can only be done in the laboratory. Traditional plant and animal breeding stay within the species to get the desired result. Some similarities: Both genetic engineering and selective breeding result in modification of an organism's genotype. In other words, the organism's genes are changed in some way. If one or more genes from another species are introduced, the resulting genome consists of recombinant DNA. In both processes, an out side source is in control, rather than natural selection. (Selective breeding is sometimes referred to as artificial selection.) So humans decide which individual animals or plants to retain in each generation. And in both processes, the purpose is to make the livestock or crop better from a human point of view.


What are the similarities between selective breeding and genetic breeding?

Genetic engineering is the combining of DNA from different species and can only be done in the laboratory. Traditional plant and animal breeding stay within the species to get the desired result. Some similarities: Both genetic engineering and selective breeding result in modification of an organism's genotype. In other words, the organism's genes are changed in some way. If one or more genes from another species are introduced, the resulting genome consists of recombinant DNA. In both processes, an out side source is in control, rather than natural selection. (Selective breeding is sometimes referred to as artificial selection.) So humans decide which individual animals or plants to retain in each generation. And in both processes, the purpose is to make the livestock or crop better from a human point of view.


What is the difference between natural and selective breeding?

The difference between selective breeding and genetic engineering is that selective breeding is when two organisms are breed together in hope of getting an offspring with the desired phenotype, while genetic engineering is the same concept except it deals with humans.


What motivates people to use Genetic Engineering?

The same things that have motivated people to use conventional breeding methods in agriculture and to use conventional medical techniques to better treat diseases in medicine. Genetic engineering just offers additional options, it does not have different motivations.


How much do cows weigh after selective breeding?

The same after selective breeding. A cow's weight, of course, increases as the fetal calf inside her grows until it's time to give birth to push him out.


Which form of selective breeding crosses parents with the same or similar sets of allele?

Inbreeding!


Which form of selective breeding crosses parents with the same or similar sets of alleles?

Inbreeding


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.


Genetic engineering is possible because all organisms are based on the same?

genetic code