LIFE: THE SCIENCE OF BIOLOGY
LIFE: THE SCIENCE OF BIOLOGY
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ISBN: 9781319145125
Author: Sadava
Publisher: MAC HIGHER
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The ways, in which selections are done by humans in the agricultural crop, are different from natural selection. Also, give an example of a trait, which might get favored by artificial selection in agriculture but not by natural selection in a wild population.

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Gene evolution constantly occurs in natural populations by an evolutionary process known as natural selection. The traits, which provide an evolutionary benefit to an organism, get selected and are passed on to the future generations. When this selection process is modified by human beings to select certain traits, such as in the case of agricultural crops, it is known as artificial selection or selective breeding.

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