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: -How does selective breeding work? Farmers select parents with desirable characteristics and breed them together. From their offspring, they again choose those with the best combination of traits and breed them together. The process is repeated over many generations .

Detailed explanation-4: -Selective Breeding. Breeders of animals and plants in today’s world are looking to produce organisms that will possess desirable characteristics, such as high crop yields, resistance to disease, high growth rate and many other phenotypical characteristics.

Detailed explanation-5: -3. The text explains that selective breeding involves breeding animals or plants for specific desirable traits. For example, humans bred different types of dogs to accomplish certain jobs. Farmers breed chickens for having more meat and laying a greater amount of eggs.