HORTICULTURE SCIENCE
PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Selective breeding is ____
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a process to create an organism with desired traits from parents with those desired traits
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natural method of producing offspring with desired traits
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creating a new species
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making organisms reproduce during times of stress
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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: -The correct answer is option (b). Selective breeding is a process of selecting the parents with desired properties.
Detailed explanation-3: -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.
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