PATHOLOGY

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: -artificial selection. noun. breeding to produce desired characteristics in animal or plant offspring.

Detailed explanation-3: -Selective breeding is a process in which humans breed specific parents to create offspring with desirable characteristics. Examples include dogs bred for specific work tasks or fruit bred to be sweeter.

Detailed explanation-4: -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.

Detailed explanation-5: -Selective breeding is when you look for desired traits, and you only breed the plants or animals that have them (or don’t breed the ones with an undesired trait). Cross-breeding is when you breed two different types of plants or animals together, like a horse with a donkey, creating hybrid offspring.