Human-directed selection
What Human-directed selection means in Biology GCSE, as defined for AQA.
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Humans choose which characteristic to select for, based on usefulness, appearance, or behaviour, rather than natural selection.
Humans can speed up natural selection by selective breeding, choosing parents with desired characteristics.
Topics that use Human-directed selection
- Advantages and disadvantages of sexual and asexual reproduction (biology only) (AQA GCSE)
- Selective breeding (AQA GCSE)
Related terms
- Adaptation and survival
- Aesthetic and behavioural traits
- Agricultural usefulness
- Application to unfamiliar organisms
- artificial selection
- Asexual reproduction
- Asexual reproduction and cloning
- Energy and time efficiency
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