FORESTRY
ECOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENT
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Question
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The selective breeding of organisms by humans for specific characteristics is called?
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evolution
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natural selection
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adaptation
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artificial selection
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -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.
Detailed explanation-2: -Artificial selection (or selective breeding) differs from natural selection in that heritable variations in a species are manipulated by humans through controlled breeding.
Detailed explanation-3: -Introduction. Artificial selection is the process by which humans choose individual organisms with certain phenotypic trait values for breeding. If there is additive genetic variance for the selected trait, it will respond to the selection, that is, the trait will evolve.
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