Examples

· Example a dog and a cat will produce different kind of animal.
· A horse and a donkey will produce a good looking creature.
· A bob cat and a lynx can have another new type of cat in there family.
· A sheep and a goat can produce another type of animal.
· Tulips and a English rose can create another type of flower.

Refrences

· http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_selection
· http://library.thinkquest.org/C0118084/Gene/Genetic_variation/artificialselection.htm
· http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVSJNhUhV-4
· http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dK8020pi5Z8
· http://tripatlas.com/artificialselection
· Faculty.southwest.tn.edu
· forums.myspace.com
· en.wikipedia.org

PIctures and Videos

Click to watch

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVSJNhUhV-4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dK8020pi5Z8

Ethical/social issues

Artificial selection is a good thing because they produce new good things and negative selection produces something not good looking. In the end it the balance lies in the middle. Artificial selection can be used for good things or bad things.

Applications and uses

Artificial selection is used for creating new breeds of different species.

History of artificial selection

Artificial selection was an idea different from natural selection which was firstly mentioned by Charles Darwin. Simply it is a process that encourages good and desirable traits,that lead to the development of better and superior animals and plants. All over the world we can see the result of artificial selection.

Brief description

Plants with the right type of characteristics are grown by man and the number of those plants just keeps increasing but plants without good traits are less likely to survive and aren’t given fertilizer etc.
Sooner or later the plants will evolutes.

Definition of Artificial selection

Artificial selection is when different traits with good characteristics are bred to make a new plant or animal life. This process is also known as selective breeding.