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What is selective breeding?

What is selective breeding?

Flow diagram of selective breeding showing variation in a crop population, selection of parents, breeding, selection of the best offspring, and repetition over many generations until the desired characteristic and useful alleles become more common

Selective breeding is choosing organisms with a desired characteristic and breeding them together. The best offspring are selected and bred again over many generations.

6.2.3 Selective breeding Lesson

  1. GCSE
  2. /Biology
  3. /6.2.3 Selective breeding

Step-by-step lessons on OCR GCSE Biology 6.2.3 Selective breeding. Each one builds up to exam-style questions. Start with the foundational topics and build up to the higher-tier material.

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