Artificial Selection Alters Gene Frequency (Evolution)
Notes:
Artificial selection is contrary to natural selection:
Survival of the desirable vs. of the fit
Some hybrid plant/animal species have lost the ability to self-reproduce:
results are life threatening dependence on man, lack
of genetic diversity (inbreeding), susceptibility to
Centuries of cultivation (artificial selection) resulted in a mono culture (no genetic diversity) within the Irish Potato;
consequently, phytophora blight virtually destroyed
not only the national potato crop, but the society as