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What are two reasons why people use selective breeding to change the characteristics of plants?
People use selective breeding to enhance desirable traits in plants, such as increased yield, disease resistance, or improved flavor, allowing for more efficient agriculture and better food quality. Additionally, selective breeding can help develop plants that are better adapted to specific environments or changing climate conditions, ensuring food security and sustainability.
How are genetic engineering and selective breeding the same?
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
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.
Why do people use selective breeding to change characteristics of plants?
Selective breeding is done to increase the likely hood of certain traits desirable by the breeder. If a dog breeder liked the shape of a dog's ears, she would mate that dog with another dog with similar shaped ears. Incestuous mating occurs quite frequently in animal breeding due to the increased genetic similarity. All dogs belong to the same species, and therefor can produce viable offspring. The reason a Chihuahua and a German Shepard are so different is because of the ancient practice of selective animal breeding.
Why is selective breeding by humans of plants and animals evidence of evolution?
* Because it shows that species can change over time
When human change the physical characteristics of organism's what type of selection is it?
Breeding.
What is the process for genetically changing goats?
You can't change them into something they're not. If you want to change an individual's offspring characteristicstha's called selective breeding. Genotypical and/or phenotypical.
The benefits of selective breeding include?
Selective breeding produces exactly what the person doing the selective breeding needs or wants. Today many Farming industries selectively breed their produce to have certain traits that seem more appealing to the customer buying their vegetables or fruit such as size and color(in respect to what the fruit is naturally like, in other words your not going to create purple apples)
What ways did farming change during the Industrial Revolution?
Tull's Seed Drill. Also selective breeding of sheep for better wool and meat.
Is selective breeding used in nature to provide change over time?
Selective breeding, also known as artificial selection, is a process carried out by humans to develop desirable traits in plants and animals. In nature, natural selection is the driving force for change over time, where organisms with advantageous traits have a better chance of survival and reproduction, leading to those traits becoming more common in a population. While similar in principle, natural selection occurs without human intervention, unlike selective 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
What is the model in of evolution in which periods of rapid change occur is called?
Punctuated equilibrium is the model of evolution in which periods of rapid change occur interspersed with long periods of stability. This theory suggests that species evolve quickly in short bursts of rapid change followed by extended periods of little or no change.
