AP BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Selective breeding (also called artificial selection) is the process by which humans use animal breeding and plant breeding to selectively develop particular phenotypic traits (characteristics) by choosing which typically animal or plant males and females will sexually reproduce and have offspring together.

Detailed explanation-2: -Selective breeding is also known as artificial selection. Artificial selection is driven by human intervention.

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: -This process is called artificial selection because people (instead of nature) select which organisms get to reproduce. As shown below, farmers have cultivated many crops from wild mustard by artificially selecting for certain attributes.

Detailed explanation-5: -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.