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Why are mutations useful in selective breeding?
Because without mutations, selective breeding would be almost impossible.
How are mutations useful in breeding?
mutations are useful but not all the time itis 99 percent are bad
How can selective breeding be beneficial to dog breeders?
It can be useful for finding clever and fast dogs.
Why are only neutral mutations useful for molecular clocks?
Only neutral mutations are useful for molecular clocks because they accumulate in the DNA of different species at the same rate, while other mutations do not.
What is selective breeding?
Selective breeding is the process in which two animals from the same species reproduce due to useful characteristics. Two animals with a certain type of characteristic are bred together to produce offspring. Then the offspring with the most useful characteristic breeds with another offspring to produce more offspring. This process continues for generations until the offspring consistently have the useful characteristic farmers or scientists are looking for. Cross-breeding is a type of selective breeding except with animals from two organisms from the same species but not the same breed. Selective breeding is one of the most common causes for a wide range of breeds in animals and varieties in plants. this is incorrectIt is the process which humans use animal breeding and plant breeding to selectively develop particular characteristics by choosing which typically animal or plant males and females will sexually reproduce and have offspring together
In what ways has selective breeding been useful to humans today and in the past?
-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.
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 has selective breeding been used on humans beings?
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
How will variations in organism be useful in plant and animal breeding?
Variations in organisms can certainly be useful in plant and animal breeding. These variations lead to adaptions to the environment.
Why is it not possible to use the FBNI gene to diagnose Marfan syndrome?
It is presently not useful as a diagnostic test because there is evidence that there can be mutations in the fibrillin gene that do not produce Marfan.
Why is breeding usefull?
Breeding isn't useful, it is a must, without breeding there would be no food and every living organism would cease to exist.
Why aren't all mutations bad?
Mutations are unnatural changes in the body or behavior. They are not always bad. For instance, the skin of the poison tree frog is not really bad at all. It rubs itself on poison leaves and mutated itself not to be affected.
