Selective Breeding

AIM: be able to explain how selective breeding is carried out

to produce new varieties of plant.
TASK: How many different
groups can you make from the corn, wheat, rose, sheep,
following plants and animals. duck, goose, tomato,
How many ways can you make cabbage, rye, racehorse,
the groups overlap? cart horse, pit pony,
alsatian, labrador,
sheepdog, St Bernard
Plants and
animals used for dog, apple, seedless
Working animals food grape, hemp, fast-growing
conifer tree, strawberry,
farmed trout, farmed
salmon, wild trout, wild
salmon
Sheep can be both!
Why are there so many different varieties of
apples?
 Why are
there so
many
different
varieties of
lettuce?
Iceberg
Romaine

Common round
lettuce

Oak leaf
 Selective Breeding
What do these three have in common with this
one?

belgian blue to 3:17

 What is selective breeding?
S_______ b_______ is a process used to produce
different breeds of animals or varieties of plants that
have useful c____________.
Farmers can c_____ individual
cows to mate to produce cows
that will yield more m____.

Apple growers can cross a variety of apple

known for taste with another variety that
shows strong resistance to d_____.
 Tasks

1. For each of the following organisms list the features that

might be selectively bred for:
Cattle
Sheep
Horses
Apple trees

2. Read pages 50 and 51, answer the questions in full

sentences.

3. Imagine that you want to breed the perfect animal or plant.

What would it be? Produce a billboard advert for your new
breed.
True or false?
 Pollination in plants

Write a set of instructions which could be given to a plant

breeder to explain how to selectively breed their plants.
Explain how:
• pollen from one flower can be used to pollinate another
flower;
•to ensure that there is no contamination with pollen from
other flowers.