Which statement correctly explains animal breeding?
Animal husbandry and plant breeding play a major role in increasing food production.
Animal husbandry is the agricultural practice of breeding and raising livestock. It deals with the rearing, caring and breeding of livestock like buffaloes, cows, pigs, horses, cattle, sheep, camels, goats etc.
Management of animals for obtaining milk and its products is called dairying.
Animal breeding is an important aspect of animal husbandry.
Selective mating of animals followed by their selection to obtain superior genotypes with desired qualities is called animal breeding.
It is of two types: inbreeding and out-breeding.
Mating of very closely related individuals within the same breed having common ancestors is called inbreeding.
Mating of unrelated animals is called out-breeding.