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What is selective breeding
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The process of breeding organisms with desirable traits to ensure that specific alleles are passed on to the next generation
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Benefits of selective breeding
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- Increased productivity
- Better adaption
- More profit
- Disease resistance
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Disadvantages of selective breeding
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- Reduces the gene pool
- Less variation
- Susceptible to more diseases
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Process of selective breeding
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- Select characteristics- decide what characteristics are most important
- Choose parents- Select parents with said characteristic from mixed population
- Breed parents- Breed selected parents together
- Select offspring- Choose offspring with desired characteristic to breed in next generation
- Repeat- Repeat over many generations until all offspring have desired characteristics
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