Wild foxes are aggressive and unfriendly to humans. However, russian scientists have worked since the 1950s to breed a domesticated version of the silver fox. Each year, scientists choose the tamest foxes to mate together. Gradually, the foxes are becoming more like dogs. They are much more friendly and playful than wild foxes. What technique is used to increase desirable traits in domesticated animals through breeding?

a. artificial selection

b. natural selection

c. genome selection

d. cloning selection

A. Artificial selection

Explanation:

Artificial Selection, the process by which humans use animal breeding and plant breeding to selectively develop particular phenotypic traits (characteristics) by choosing which typically animal or plant males and females will sexually reproduce and have offspring together.

lesson summarykaryotypes a genome is the full set of all the genetic information that an organism carries in its dna. chromosomes arebundles of dna and protein found in the nucleus of a eukaryotic cell.