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Selective breeding or Artifical Selection is a theory by Charles Darwin that he included in his first book "Origin Of Species" its the opposite of the Natural Selection which states that the strongest specie will survive.

The artificial selection or Selective Breeding states the human and scientific interaction to produce a new specie by modifying genetics and DNA.

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What is the breeding of organisms that have a certain desire trait?

Selective breeding.


What jobs include selective breeding?

Biotechnology is involved in Selective Breeding.


What do you call the process of choosing parent organisms for the characteristics that you want in their offspring?

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What does selective breeding involve?

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What is it called when humans control the breeding of an organism?

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