Selective Breeding and Bioengineering
Across
- 4. breeding process by which humans control the breeding of plants or animals in order to exhibit or eliminate a particular characteristic
- 5. to breed a population of animals or plants to serve the purposes of human beings and to need and accept human care
- 8. the science or practice of farming, including cultivation of the soil for the growing of crops and the rearing of animals to provide food, wool, and other products
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- 1. selection the intentional breeding of plants and animals to produce specific, desirable traits
- 2. engineered an organism or crop whose characteristics have been deliberately modified by manipulating its genetic material
- 3. a unit of heredity that is transferred from a parent to offspring and is held to determine some characteristic of the offspring
- 6. containing a gene that has been transferred from one organism to another and acts as a synonym for genetically modified
- 7. husbandry the science of breeding and caring for farm animals