LIFE SCIENCE

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: -Breeders of animals and plants in today’s world are still interested in producing organisms that will possess characteristics desirable to humans, such as high crop yields, more milk production, larger fruits, resistance to disease, high growth rate and many other phenotypical characteristics.

Detailed explanation-3: -The correct answer: The true statement about selective breeding and genetically modified organisms is (a) Farmers have been able to produce new varieties of crops by selective breeding alone.