Artificial selection
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the process of choosing particular animals to produce young or plants to produce new plants:
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Artificial selection is the process of intentionally selecting and breeding organisms with specific traits or characteristics to produce desired offspring with those same traits over several generations. This process is performed by humans and differs from natural selection, where nature selects organisms for survival based on their fitness in the environment.
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