Sentences with phrase «selectively breed those traits»

Just as certain specific traits were selectively bred into pit bulls a hundred years ago, responsible breeders have been and continue to selectively breed those traits OUT OF pit bulls.

Not exact matches

Only in recent years have advances in genomics — and understanding how genetics play out in whole organisms — made it realistic for crop breeders to be able to identify traits in wild plants and selectively breed them into domestic stock.

First observed by Darwin but best chronicled in a 20th - century Soviet attempt to breed tame foxes, domestication syndrome covers a range of unintended physical traits that emerge as a wild species is selectively bred for more docile behavior.

The gene copies also hide natural variation in the wheat genome that could create opportunities to selectively breed plants with useful traits.

These animals have been selectively bred over time to study the genetic traits of animals with the obese or lean phenotype.

Farmers have selectively bred wheat species for specific traits for hundreds of years but in the 1960s, hybridization became a science.

Over this time, the need to selectively breed dogs for traits that make them good at tasks has not been the main focus for most breeders — vs breeding dogs based on things like looks and temperament.

Worse, some unscrupulous neophytes started selecting dogs for exactly the opposite criteria that had prevailed up to then: they began selectively breeding dogs for the trait of human aggressiveness.

Scientists could take things a step further and selectively breed only those whose genes lack the innate trait.

The recreation of the breed began in 1971 when foundation dogs were used selectively in various combinations to obtain the desired physical and mental traits of the original Olde English Bulldogges.

Breeds were developed by selectively choosing certain traits to be passed along and others to be avoided.

I would also imagine that humans played a huge part in this as well, maybe selectively breeding certain types of «dogs» for various traits, such as a louder bark.

Certain specific traits were selectively bred into the dogs and are now a part of the breed's character.

They have been carefully selectively bred for specific traits, both physical and mental, that suit them to their environment and their job.

Breeds exist because humans selectively bred dogs showing particular physical and behavioral traits for hundreds of generations.

These cats spread throughout the world as pets and we eventually started selectively breeding them for specific traits, thus creating different breeds.