Artificial Selection

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Artificial Selection: Overview

This topic covers concepts, such as, Inbreeding, Inbreeding Depression, Outbreeding, Plant Breeding for Disease Resistance, Artificial Selection & Selective Breeding of Dairy Cattle etc.

Important Questions on Artificial Selection

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How do you use artificial selection in a sentence?

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Explain selective breeding process in Holstein cow.

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Explain the criteria for selective breeding in cows.

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Explain the following term- Inbreeding depression

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Define the term Out crossing.

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Inbreeding for five generations led to the production of homozygous transgenic mice. However, these homozygous males or females were infertile. Which of the following approaches is most preferable and economical to obtain heterozygous transgenic animals continuously?

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Continued inbreeding, especially close inbreeding generally results in

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The term "inbreeding depression" is related to