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What is artificial selection? Do you think it affects the process of natural selection? How

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Artificial selection (or selective breeding) describle intentional breeding for certain traits or combination of traaits by humans, for exploiting the variations existing among species. It is of thhree types-mas selection, pure-line selection and colonal selection.
Yes, it affects the process of natureal selection. Nature selection selects for/or against traits based on their effect on the fitness of the organism. In artificial selecftion, traits are selected based on human preference for improving traits.
The process of natural selection leads to evolutionary change in the expression of the trait in the population, ehereas the artificial selection, through being the same process, involves the traits preferred by humans for its own benefit. It is a much faster process than the natural selection but it may impose threat on diversity in long run making it unfit to the environment.
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