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Selective breeding is when you mate specific plants or animals to pass on a certain genetic trait they may have. For example, if you have two horses with very strong hearts then you may want to breed them so that their offspring may also have a strong heart. Farmers use selective breeding to breed the best plants and animals for feeding, selling or breeding.

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Method of breeding that allows only those individual organisms with desired characteristics to produce the next generation.

It is a process used to produce different breeds of animals or varieties of plants that have useful characteristics.

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Selective breeding is the breeding of animals or plants having desirable characters.

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Artificial selection

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