NEET BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Selective breeding involves choosing parents with particular characteristics to breed together and produce offspring with more desirable characteristics.

Detailed explanation-2: -Eugenics is essentially selective breeding applied to humans. For thousands of years, animal breeders have carefully chosen which individuals to breed, creating dog breeds that vary from tiny Chihuahuas to huge great Danes.

Detailed explanation-3: -In animal breeding, techniques such as inbreeding, linebreeding, and outcrossing are utilized. In plant breeding, similar methods are used. Charles Darwin discussed how selective breeding had been successful in producing change over time in his 1859 book, On the Origin of Species.

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.