Selective Breeding

Question 1

What is selective breeding?

Answer 1

The process in which humans breed specific animals and/or plants to get desirable phenotypes

Question 2

Name a disadvantage of selective breeding.

Answer 2

Diseases can wipe out all of a species.
Variation means that results aren’t guarrenteed, could be a big waste of time as selective breeding takes hundreds and thousands of years.
Other non peferable characteristics can have a big increase in population.

Question 3

Name an advantage of selective breeding.

Answer 3

If being eaten, nice flavour.
Resistance to diseases.
Can cope with enviromental conditions.
Higher Yield