AP BIOLOGY

THE MOLECULAR BASIS OF INHERITANCE

CLONING GENES

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
The overall function of selective breeding is to
A
Create organisms with desirable traits
B
Create bigger organisms
C
Create smaller organisms
D
Create animals with more genetic mutations
Explanation: 

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: -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-3: -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-4: -Animal breeding is the process of selective mating of animals with desirable genetic traits, to maintain or enhance these traits in future generations.

Detailed explanation-5: -Inbreeding breeding of organism that genetically similar to maintain desired traits. Dogs breeds are kept pure this way. Its how a Doberman remains a Doberman.

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