Click here to practice your selective breeding skills.1. How can you create the largest crop?
2. Can you think of problems and risks associated to inbreeding?
NOTE: Nearly all domestic animals, including horses, cats, and farm animals (and most crop plants) have been produced by selective breeding. Selective breeding allows only those animals with the desired traits to produce the next generation.
if i could genetically modify a crop i would add a gene that would make the crop grow all the seasons, to repel bugs and birds (for example: having a toxic stem or roots), and i would make my crops bigger and jucier than all of the others.
ReplyDeleteWhat would happen if a human was given a gene to only be made of plant cells instead of animal cells?
ReplyDeletemy friends dog is a special breed that is unable to bark and does not shed. the dog is Basenji and is obviously selectively bred.
ReplyDeleteMy dog is also selectively bred and the vet says he is more susceptible to be allergic to wheat (a recessive trait) because he is purely bred. luckily my dog isn't allergic to wheat.
Isn't codominance also taken into account with selective breeding? For example, if the previous owner of my cat (Cleopatra - we call her Cleo) wanted a black and white cat (which is my cat's color now), wouldn't he/she want to selectively breed a black male cat and white female cat, per say?
ReplyDeleteBecause my cat must have had parents with REALLY cute genes and passed them down to her :)