Deutsch: Künstliche Selektion / Español: Selección artificial / Português: Seleção artificial / Français: Sélection artificielle / Italiano: Selezione artificiale /
Artificial selection is the process by which humans select one or more desirable genetic traits in the population of a plant or animal species and then use selective breeding to produce populations containing many individuals with the desired traits. Compare genetic engineering, natural selection.
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