Plant and animal breeding

In this topic

• Breeding: the science of new varieties
• Artificial selection
• Hybridisation and heterosis
• Distant hybridisation, polyploidy and mutagenesis

Key terms

• Selection (breeding)
• Variety
• Breed
• Strain
• Artificial selection
• Mass selection
• Individual selection
• Inbreeding
• Outbreeding
• Heterosis
• Polyploidy
• Induced mutagenesis

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