selective breeding

Noun

Meaning

selective breeding (uncountable)

The practice of breeding the best specimens of a given organism to encourage certain features.
Monsanto practices selective breeding to produce high-yield seeds.
Synonym: artificial selection

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Synonyms

breeding domestication endogamous

Antonyms

natural selection

Examples

Eugenics, which had started long before my time, had once been defined as including free love and prevention of conception... Recently it had cropped up again in the form of selective breeding. Margaret Sanger

Selective breeding in Christian countries has led to ... the progressive elimination of defective persons. Rousas John Rushdoony

Close letter words and terms

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