Examples of breeding in the following topics:
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- Selective breeding is a field concerned with testing hypotheses and theories of evolution by using controlled experiments.
- Selective breeding of plants and animals has led to varieties that differ dramatically from their original wild-type ancestors.
- Examples are the cabbage varieties, maize, or the large number of different dog breeds .
- This Chihuahua mix and Great Dane show the wide range of dog breed sizes created using artificial selection, or selective breeding.
- Illustrate how controlled experiments have allowed human beings to selectively breed domesticated plants and animals.
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- Gregor Mendel is known as the "father of modern genetics. " In breeding experiments between 1856 and 1865, Gregor Mendel first traced inheritance patterns of certain traits in pea plants and showed that they obeyed simple statistical rules.
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