Selective breeding
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Selective breeding is the process by which humans use animal breeding and plant breeding to selectively develop particular phenotypic traits by choosing which typically animal or plant males and femal
A Belgian Blue cow. The defect in the breed's myostatin gene is maintained through linebreeding and is responsible for its accelerated lean muscle growth.
This Chihuahua mix and Great Dane shows the wide range of dog breed sizes created using selective breeding.
Selective breeding transformed teosinte's few fruitcases (left) into modern maize's rows of exposed kernels (right).
Researchers at the USDA have selectively bred carrots with a variety of colors.
Purebred
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Purebreds are cultivars of an animal species achieved through the process of selective breeding. When the lineage of a purebred animal is recorded, that animal is said to be pedigreed. Purebreds breed
A purebred Arabian horse.
Pure-breed Zwergschnauzer
Purebred chocolate Persian show cat with "Grand Champion" title.
A Frisian horse (stallion), a breed which earliest known reference is from AD 50 (reign of Roman Emperor Nero) and is pedigree registered since 1879