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Paper 3 structured question: Selection

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Selective breeding involves choosing organisms with desired traits to reproduce, repeated over many generations to enhance these traits.

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Selective Breeding in Agriculture

Farmers select plants or animals with beneficial traits and breed them. The offspring showing the best traits are selected again for breeding. This process continues over several generations to improve the population.

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    State why is selective breeding repeated over many generations?

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  2. b

    Identify one trait that might be improved in crop plants by selective breeding.

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Paper 3 structured question: Selection

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Selective Breeding Process

Farmers select plants or animals with specific desirable characteristics and breed them. The offspring with the best traits are then selected for further breeding. This process is repeated over many generations to enhance these traits.

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    State what is selective breeding?

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  2. b

    Identify one example of selective breeding in crop plants or domesticated animals.

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