Sentences with phrase «breed subsequent generations»

Horses and other animals typically used for transport are products of directed domestication: Humans take an animal out of the wild with a specific use in mind, and breed subsequent generations for that purpose.

«The results lead us to surmise that people selected for domestication wolves with a particularly well - developed ability to collaborate, and then bred subsequent generations from these,» says Mia Persson.

Not exact matches

In subsequent breeding efforts, the breeders can quickly determine if new cultivars carry that trait or other useful traits for the next generation of cacao trees.

Dogs designated for showing or breeding are ones that conform most closely to the breed standard and in this way can help to further and improve the breed in subsequent generations.

With genetic testing at each subsequent generation, and with a goal of breeding normal by carrier or normal by affected, the frequency of disease will drop and frequency of normals will increase without loss of other desirable traits valued in collies.

Generations of these and subsequent breedings are recorded in the kennel records that were kept at Guisachan which are now in the Kennel Club Library.

Subsequent generations are bred with a savannah cat father (F6 or more generations removed).