Animal breeding has been used to produce animals more useful to humankind since animals were first domesticated. Traditionally it involved selecting individual animals for desired traits and mating them, with the intent of producing improved offspring. In the second half of the twentieth century, extensive performance records and computer-aided analysis permitted superior animals to be identified more accurately and, via reproductive technologies, to be utilized more rapidly for improving the... więcej

Salem Press Encyclopedia of Science, 2023. 3p.