Selective Breeding http://special-cats-kittens.com/dental_disease_in_dogs_and_cats.php

Selective breeding is a type of ARTIFICAL SELECTION. One of Hitler’s main goals was to choose people for his “master race”. He selected people he wanted to breed for their characteristics. http://www.gazellebookservices.co.uk/Military/WW2/images/ Psychological%20Study%20of%20Adolf%20Hitler.jpg http://www.frontkjemper.info/show_info.php?id=127&kat=diverse-eng

When you select two animals to breed you are trying to keep a useful characteristic of them in their offspring. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/00658/news-graphics-2008-_658215a.jpg

This can lead to a variety of the same species of organism. http://www.housepetmagazine.com/petpictures/ancestor.jpg

You may choose two partners that are very fertile and end up Producing more of that species for meat… http://sheepgal.typepad.com/sheepgal_notes_from_a_she/images/2008/04/28/lamb_nap.jpg

In this country Ewes can now produce two sets of lambs a year… http://www.proand.co.nz/nzframe.htm

And farmers have selectively bred dairy cows to produce a high quality and quantity of milk. This is useful because They can make more product and thus more money faster.

recognise a useful characteristic from an organism YOU have to be able to recognise a useful characteristic from an organism and state why you might selectively breed for it. http://www.dkimages.com/discover/DKIMAGES/Discover/Home/Food-and-Drink/Ingredients/Fruit/Bananas/General/General-27.html

However – there is another option........

Genetically Modified Food http://www.thewalkzone.co.uk/south/2005/04/290405g.jpg

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