Selective Breeding Vocabulary

the science or practice of farming, including cultivation of the soil for the growing of crops and the rearing of animals to provide food, wool, and other products

• Agriculture

• animal husbandry

• natural selection

• GMO

the science of breeding and caring for farm animals

• agriculture

• animal husbandry

• GMO

• selective breeding

the intentional breeding of plants and animals to produce specific, desirable traits

• artificial selection

• genetically modified organism (GMO)

• selective breeding

• genetically engineered

to breed a population of animals or plants to serve the purposes of human beings and to need and accept human care

• selective breeding

• transgenic

• domesticate

• animal husbandry

a unit of heredity that is transferred from a parent to offspring and is held to determine some characteristic of the offspring

• chromosome

• gene

• transgenic

• GMO

an organism or crop whose characteristics have been deliberately modified by manipulating its genetic material

• artificial slection

• GMO

• gene

• Genetically engineered

any organism whose genetic material has been altered using genetic engineering techniques

• selective breeding

• genetically modified organism (GMO)

• genetically engineered

• domesticate

process by which humans control the breeding of plants or animals in order to exhibit or eliminate a particular characteristic

• selective breeding

• animal husbandry

• agriculture

• transgenic

containing a gene that has been transferred from one organism to another and acts as a synonym for genetically modified

• genetically engineered

• GMO

• transgenic

• artificial selection