NEET BIOLOGY

GENETICS AND EVOLUTION

INHERITANCE AND VARIATION

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
The purpose of selective breeding is ____
A
get bigger animals
B
Get smaller animals
C
Create animals with desired traits
D
Create animals with bad traits
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 purpose of selective breeding is to develop livestock whose desirable traits have strong heritable components and can therefore be propagated.

Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -Selective breeding: when animals with desired characteristics are mated to produce offspring with those desired traits.

Detailed explanation-5: -Artificial selection is the identification by humans of desirable traits in plants and animals, and the steps taken to enhance and perpetuate those traits in future generations.

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