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: -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-3: -Introduction: Darwin and Domestication There is little doubt that Darwin considered the process by which animals and plants are domesticated (artificial selection) as a useful analogy for the mechanism by which adaptive evolution occurs in the wild (natural selection).

Detailed explanation-4: -Farmers and breeders allowed only the plants and animals with desirable characteristics to reproduce, causing the evolution of farm stock. This process is called artificial selection because people (instead of nature) select which organisms get to reproduce.

Detailed explanation-5: -Selective breeding, also known as artificial selection, is a process used by humans to develop new organisms with desirable characteristics. In selective breeding, a breeder chooses two parents with beneficial phenotypic traits to reproduce, yielding offspring with those desired traits.