Identify this process in which humans produce plants and animals with  desirable traits by choosing which individuals get to reproduce.
Wilhelm Johannsen's pure line theory of this concept is often applied to self-pollinating plants, and   a common goal of this process is hybrid vigor. Dmitri Belyaev successfully used this method to  domesticate the silver fox. Darwin devoted the first chapter of On the Origin of Species  to this   concept, focusing on varieties of fancy pigeons. Broccoli, cabbage, and kale all descended from the  wild mustard plant because of this process that in dogs resulted in radically different types like the  Great Dane and Chihuahua. Identify this process in which humans produce plants and animals with  desirable traits by choosing which individuals get to reproduce.
Wilhelm Johannsen's pure line theory of this concept is often applied to self-pollinating plants, and   a common goal of this process is hybrid vigor.
artificial selection [accept selective breeding; prompt on “breeding”]