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What does selective breeding aim to improve in farm animals?

Traits like growth rate and yield.

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  1. Only coat color
  2. Traits like growth rate and yield ✔
  3. Only animal height

Why: Farmers breed for hardiness, fertility, fast growth, low feed use, and higher yields, while selecting against defects.

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Answer: Traits like growth rate and yield. Farmers breed for hardiness, fertility, fast growth, low feed use, and higher yields, while selecting against defects.

  1. Animal husbandry en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_husbandry
    These include hardiness, fertility, docility, mothering abilities, fast growth rates, low feed consumption per unit of growth
    Checked 2026-11-07.

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