discuss the difference between selective breeding and cloning?

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With cloning, one makes an exact physical copy using DNA. Selective breeding incolves selecting specimens based on desireable characteristics and breeding them to produce the ideal offspring. They really are not the same thing.

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They are two totally different things. Cloning involved making a genetic DUPLICATE of the original animal. Selective breeding means picking animals for specific traits (large muscles - good fur - whatever) and breeding them together to, hopefully, get a new animal with an enhanced version of that trait. Hope this helps.

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I think selective breeding occurs when you want to create something new by mixing two things together. In other words, if you want a strange looking small, loud and powerful dog, you would use a male or female Chihuahua with like a pitbull. This would give birth to a strange hybrid of the two. That is selective breeding cause you 'selected' characteristics that you wanted in the new species.

Cloing, on the other hand, occurs when you desire an exact replica of what already exists. Say you love your pet Chihuahua and he gets hit by a car and has only a few moments to live. If you want an exact duplicate,you will then have to clone or photocopy the dog exactly to what it was before. The only real difference is that in cloning, you can actually remove parts of the dog that you didn't want like a certain gene that causes certain ailments that will make the dog sick and in pain, stuff it can live without but that won't change it's physical appearance from what was before.

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