The Evolution of Artificial Selection
Vitahi Jeyananthan
Many years ago, artificial selection began, turning the ancestors to the plants and animals we know today. People chose which aspects of a plant or animal they wanted and chose to reproduce the organisms which had them. Artificial selection has changed features of numerous living things including flower shapes, colour, and animal size. This has been going on for millenniums, developing many different types of artificial selection including GMOs and selective breeding which can then be subcategorized into carefully breeding, inbreeding, and crossbreeding. Artificial selection has changed our lives drastically.
Each type of artificial selection has a different concept, differentiating it from the others. GMOs are organisms that have been modified through transgenic technology and genetic engineering. The technology used is able to modify and change the characteristics of an organism. The process is done by removing an wanted gene from one organism, and then copying it into another.
Carefully breeding is one of the sub-categories of selective breeding. It involves the breeding of plants and animals with the desired traits wanted. Carefully breeding has lead to factors such as the amount of sugar in fruits and
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These wolves started out in East Asia where they joined humans as scavengers. These wolves were noticed and were then chosen for increased docility and were domesticated into the Chinese native dogs. As domestication developed, new traits were being emphasized such as size, hair length, body colour, and shape. Eventually there were breeds such as Chihuahuas and Corgis which shared little to no resemblance to their wolf ancestors. This concept was also being used on other animals, bringing us faster horses, and farm animals containing a lot more meat and bulk than ever