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The Pros And Cons Of Artificial Selection

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Humans have been successful with manipulating genetic transfer for thousands of years since our nomadic hunter gatherer ancestors settled and started farming animals and cultivating plant crops. Humans used the same principle of natural selection (selection by the environment of the ‘most fitted’) to develop artificial selection (selection by humans of the ‘most fitted’). Artificial selection, also known as ‘selective breeding’ is a procedure that is still carried out in today’s world that which organisms with desirable traits were bred together. It was the earliest form of genetic manipulation. Over the last few decades, along with the advancement of technology, humans have developed sophisticated methods to manipulate genetic information

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