selective breeding

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Thousands of years of selective breeding have produced extensive genetic changes in the plants and animals we eat, not all of them good.
數千年的選擇性培育已經造成了食用植物和動物廣泛的基因改變，竝非所有的改變都是好的。
Many scientists agree that the domestic dog displays more morphological variation than any other known species, thanks to selective breeding by humans.
許多科學家都認爲，國內的狗更顯示形態比任何其他已知的物種變異，人類有選擇育種的感謝。
Selective breeding over time created these wide variations, but the process depended on nature to produce the desired gene.
長時間選擇性的培育創造了這些廣泛的變種，但是這個過程還是要依賴大自然來産生出所需的基因。

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the process of choosing only plants and animals with desirable characteristics to reproduce