Wednesday, May 6, 2020

Luke Duncan s 91607 Classical Vs Modern Essay - 1773 Words

Luke Duncan’s 91607 â€Å"Classical vs Modern† Artificial Selection Over the evolution of dogs, artificial selection from humans has moulded the different types of dogs we have today. Humans have used artificial selection to create breeds of dogs that we see as useful for different tasks. There are around 340 different breeds of dogs around the world that are recognised by the World Canine Organisation. An example that I am going to use is artificial selection of working dogs (Huntaways) used in the farming industry. Artificial breeding has been extremely important in ensuring that you are breeding the best dogs for the job. This means that farmers will breed their best dogs together to ensure that he has high quality working dogs. Farmers that also compete in dog trialling, breed the dogs that are best suited to the sport of dog trialling together because there is no point breeding a high quality working dog with a Labrador because you will only end up going backwards in terms of producing high quality working dogs. Farmers breeding different breeds of working dogs together meant that they could select for the traits that they wanted developed the Huntaway breed. This is a very good example of artificial selection because they bred the dogs that have the traits that they want and don’t breed the dogs that have traits that they don’t want. The traits of Huntaways that good working dogs posses include a loud deep sounding bark, medium to large frame body with great

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