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Define selective breeding.

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  • The process by which humans use animal breeding and plant breeding to selectively develop particular phenotype traits (characteristics) by choosing which typically animal or plant males and females will sexually reproduce and have offspring together​ is called selective breeding.
  • In short, breeding sheep with special characters, is called selective breeding (also called artificial selection).
  • Selective breeding is done to have sheep with soft hair.

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