AP BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Selective breeding involves choosing parents with particular characteristics to breed together and produce offspring with more desirable characteristics. Humans have selectively bred plants and animals for thousands of years including: crop plants with better yields.

Detailed explanation-2: -Humans have bred food crops from wild plants and domesticated animals for thousands of years. Selective breeding is when humans breed plants and animals for particular genetic characteristics so that they are different to their actual wild ancestors and are now beneficial to humans.

Detailed explanation-3: -Artificial selection is the identification by humans of desirable traits in plants and animals, and the steps taken to enhance and perpetuate those traits in future generations.

Detailed explanation-4: -The purpose of selective breeding is to develop livestock whose desirable traits have strong heritable components and can therefore be propagated.

Detailed explanation-5: -Eugenics is essentially selective breeding applied to humans.