Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

To: AndrewC

Oh, yeah..I’m sure that Hitler had set up conjugal visits to ensure there was no interruption in the passing of genes of the “unfit” and I’m sure that his sterilization programs had nothing to do with preventing the transmission of genes he didn’t want passed on and I’m sure that farmers never prevented the breeding of the “unfit” nor never killed them off.

Sheesh. Do you even understand selective breeding? It refers to more than just a couple of desired partners getting it on.


313 posted on 06/22/2008 6:33:14 AM PDT by Gondring (I'll give up my right to die when hell freezes over my dead body!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 305 | View Replies ]


To: Gondring
Sheesh. Do you even understand selective breeding? It refers to more than just a couple of desired partners getting it on.

I'm not sure you understand the words you have used. Killing off your gene-pool is not the aim of selective breeding. Gas chambers are. Here is a definition/description of selective breeding from biology-online.

http://www.biology-online.org/2/12_selective_breeding.htm



Breeders of animals and plants in today's world are looking to produce organisms that will possess desirable characteristics, such as high crop yields, resistance to disease, high growth rate and many other phenotypical characteristics that will benefit the organism and species in the long term.

This is usually done by crossing two members of the same species which possess dominant alleles for particular genes, such as long life and quick metabolism in one organism crossed with another organism possessing genes for fast growth and high yield. Since both these organisms have dominant genes for these desirable characteristics, when they are crossed they will produce at least some offspring that will show ALL of these desirable characteristics. When such a cross occurs, the offspring is termed a hybrid, produced from two genetically dissimilar parents which usually produces offspring with more desirable qualities. Breeders continuously track which characteristics are possessed by each organism so when the breeding season comes once again, they can selectively breed the organisms to produce more favourable qualities in the offspring.

The offspring will become heterozygous, meaning the allele for each characteristic will possess one dominant and one recessive gene. Most professional breeders have a true breeding cross (ie AAbb with AAbb) so that they will produce a gene bank of these qualities that can be crossed with aaBB to produce heterozygous offspring. This way the dominant features are retained in the first breeding group and can be passed on to offspring in the second instance.

This process of selecting parents is called artificial selection or selective breeding, and poses no threat to nature from man manipulating the the course of nature. It has allowed our species to increase the efficiency of the animals and plants we breed, such as increasing milk yield from cows by continuously breeding selected cows with one another to produce a hybrid.

316 posted on 06/22/2008 7:45:49 PM PDT by AndrewC
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 313 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson