AP BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Artificial selection is an evolutionary process in which humans consciously select for or against particular features in organisms – for example, by choosing which individuals to save seeds from or breed from one generation to the next. People have been artificially selecting plants and animals for thousands of years.

Detailed explanation-2: -Animals and plants can alter due to natural selection and selective breeding. The distinction is that natural selection occurs without human intervention, whereas selective breeding occurs only when people interfere. As a result, selective breeding is also known as artificial selection.

Detailed explanation-3: -Artificial selection, also called “selective breeding”, is where humans select for desirable traits in agricultural products or animals, rather than leaving the species to evolve and change gradually without human interference, like in natural selection.

Detailed explanation-4: -Methods of selection discussed include (1) individual selection (also called mass selection), (2) family selection, (3) sib selection, (4) progeny testing, (5) within-family selection, (6) pedigree selection, and (7) combined selection.