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artificial selection

The breeding of plants and animals to produce desirable traits. Organisms with the desired traits, such as size or taste, are artificially mated or cross-pollinated with organisms with similar desired traits.

"If art by artificial selection, why not Nature by natural selection?"

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Joseph Le Conte

by zenda gothic April 29, 2016

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