selective breeding

• Selective breeding is the process of choosing individuals with desirable traits to produce offspring that inherit those characteristics.
• humans would select an animal and breed it the desired characteristic and is repeated over many generations until the desired character is shown
• the breed produced depends on the characteristics required
• problems w inbreeding is it can put dogs at risk of birth defects and genetically inherited health problems - making them prone to diseases.
• examples of selective breeding in dogs is breeding dogs in hunting, their appearance and temperament.
• popular breeds of large dogs look different but are all the same species - they can still inbreed
• unnaturally small and large dogs are particularly prone to problems