PATHOLOGY MCQ
GENETICS AND DISEASE
Question
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Get bigger animals
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get smaller animals
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create animals with desirable traits
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create animals with bad traits
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Detailed explanation-1: -Artificial selection has long been used in agriculture to produce animals and crops with desirable traits. The meats sold today are the result of the selective breeding of chickens, cattle, sheep, and pigs. Many fruits and vegetables have been improved or even created through artificial selection.
Detailed explanation-2: -Selective breeding aims to adapt an organism’s characteristics in a way that is desirable to the humans that breed them.
Detailed explanation-3: -Since the time man first domesticated animals, selective breeding has been used to develop better or more useful strains (or breeds) of the animals from the genetic diversity that naturally exists in the population of a single species.
Detailed explanation-4: -Selective breeding is a process to develop new organisms with desirable characteristics.
Detailed explanation-5: -How does selective breeding work? Farmers select parents with desirable characteristics and breed them together. From their offspring, they again choose those with the best combination of traits and breed them together. The process is repeated over many generations .