Wednesday, 15 May 2013

5.11 understand that animals with desired characteristics can be developed by selective breeding

Farmers can choose to make sure animals with characteristics they desire reproduce, their offspring will inherit the genes of the characteristic.


  1. This video, which is the first 15 minutes of an early 1990s BBC documentary, has much information that pupils studying this topic may find very useful. One of the people who explains some of the major consequences of selective breeding in it is a chicken farmer who supplies chickens to supermarkets;

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