Biology GCSE
Agricultural usefulness
What Agricultural usefulness means in Biology GCSE, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Agricultural usefulness
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Reference: AQA
Usefulness includes traits improving food production, such as disease resistance in crops or higher meat or milk yield in farm animals.
Topics that use Agricultural usefulness
- Selective breeding (AQA GCSE)
Related terms
- Aesthetic and behavioural traits
- artificial selection
- Genetic variation within populations
- Human selection over many generations
- Human-directed selection
- Inbreeding
- Repeated artificial selection
- Selection of parents by humans
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