SCIENCE
PHYSICAL SCIENCES
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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selecting the offspring with desired properties
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selecting the parents with desired properties.
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selecting an area for breeding.
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selecting fine hair for good quality wool.
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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: -The correct answer is option (b). Selective breeding is a process of selecting the parents with desired properties.
Detailed explanation-3: -breeding is a process of selecting the parents for obtaining special characters in the offspring.
Detailed explanation-4: -Artificial selection has long been used in agriculture to produce animals and crops with desirable traits. The meats sold today are the result of the selective breeding of chickens, cattle, sheep, and pigs.
Detailed explanation-5: -Their parents are specially chosen to give birth to sheep which have only soft under-hair. This process of selecting parents for obtaining special characters in their offspring, such as soft under hair in sheep, is termed ‘selective breeding’.