Selective breeding

Question 1

What is selective breeding?

Answer 1

Selective Breeding is when humans select the plants or animals they are going to breed so they can bring out the desired characteristics that they want out of the animal.

Question 2

How does selective breeding occur?

Answer 2

1. Select the crops that best suit the income you want.
2. Secondly, breed them with each other.
3. Selective the best of the offspring and breed them together.
4. Continue this over a long period of time.

Question 3

What are the advantages of selective breeding?

Answer 3

• Improvements to plants or animals
• Future generations of plants and animals improve
• The cost of selective breeding is minimal.

Question 4

What are the disadvantages of selective breeding?

Answer 4

• lack of variety in a plant or animal species
• Genetic mutations would still occur
• There may be evolutionary changes which can affect our planet.