Artificial Selection Definition

noun
Human intervention in animal or plant reproduction or survival to allow only individuals with desirable traits to reproduce.
American Heritage Medicine

(biology) Intervention by humans in the breeding of plants or animals in order to preserve selected genetic traits.

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Artificial Selection Sentence Examples

  • The variations which have been perpetuated and intensified by artificial selection are, with the exception of those of the dog, greater than have been induced in any other mammal.

  • Testing constraints by artificial selection - direct and correlated responses in butterfly eyespots and in vertebrate digits.

  • He pointed to the changes wrought on domesticated organisms by the artificial selection of similar variations, and drew the inference that there must be parallel occurrences under wild nature.

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