Selective Breeding

If I could go back in time and tell myself about a certain topic I that I learned in science I would tell myself about selective breeding. Selective breeding is when a breeder intentionally breeds two animals together to make their offspring more desirable. Animals like mules have been created from selective breeding. However animals that are created from selective breeding usually do not have sex chromosomes so they can not reproduce. Often the only way to make animals like mules is to breed the two animals that can make a mule. Selective breeding is not always used to make a entirely new species. For example if a person asked a dog breeder for a specific color puppy, the breeder would intentionally breed two dogs with that color to make the puppy. Another example of selective breeding is corn. Originally corn was a type of wild grass. Farmers continuously bred certain types of the wild grass and eventually corn was created.

To better understand selective breeding we did an experiment where you had to breed certain flowers to create a target flower with certain traits. Some of these traits where flower color, seed color, and stem length. Also once you created the target flower a certain number of times you went to the next level, and each level had more traits than the last one so the game got much harder.