What is it?
Artificial section is international breeding for certain traits or combination of traits. Just as when breeders select their dogs for certain characteristics or traits such as a long or short tail. It was created by Charles Darwin in comparison to natural selection. Artificial selection is used by humans to alter populations such as agriculture an example being the amount of eggs that hens lay. Although many aspects such as producing more milk may benefit us although it is wrong to over manipulate something such as humans. Although artificially selecting a plant can benefit us, greatly such as giving us nutrients that could possibly make us all healthier. By artificially placing higher volumes of nutrients it could increase our overall health greatly. Although there are many positive and negative sides I think that as us humans being living creatures just like plants and animals it is as wrong for a human to artificially select a plant or animal.
Advantages:
The advantages of artificial selection include diseases that can be prevented by being able to detect genetically prone people, plants and animals and preparing for the inevitable. Not to mention with artificial selection can treat infectious diseases by implanting genes with codes for antiviral proteins. An example would be just as the designer babies. They will select and manipulate the embryo to make sure that the child does not contain any infectious diseases. They can be tailored to show characteristics that are desirable. For example the trees can be manipulated to decrease the threat of global warming by absorbing greater sums of CO2. The genetic engineering could increase diversity as well as cross over alleles to be added to other species, such as altering the genetics of wheat plants to grow insulin to benefit all. It can also rule our weakness or disabilities such as arthritis in humans.
Disadvantages:
The disadvantages of artificial section include the risk of disturbing natures complex inter related chain by bringing in genetically modified genes. This could potenti
ally have an effect on the eco system that is irreversible and the consequences that are unknown. It can also create many moral issues such as religion, this questions if it is right to mould or form the law and course of nature. This includes the Christian belief of loving all as they are or were meant to be. Another disadvantage is having all sections uniform makes the crops or cattle more easily influenced or affected to an infectious disease because of the lack of biodiversity. Another disadvantage is it gets rid of verity as well interbreeding to obtain certain characteristics that can increase the inherent illness for example German shepherd dogs with hip problems. As well another example is the interbreeding of humans. This can occur if let’s say a breeder only wants to artificially select the maths and science to excel in all humans therefore decreasing or eliminating other elements. The disadvantages would be great all as humans would lose such abilities like to create art work for example. It could potentially wipe out or alter a whole aspect of human life.Natural vs. Artificial
Natural selection is when heritable traits make it more likely for an organism to survive and successfully reproduce and bec
ome more successful over each generation. An example being children and their parents, through each generation the parents learn many new things throughout their life. By passing on these many traits to their children and adding it to their own knowledge that the children are learning as we have their own experiences it gives the children traits which ultimately will make them more successful. Later on in life when the children get to the role of the parents their traits and experiences as well as what they have been taught will only give their own children a better chance to survive. Artificial selection is a concept of a wider process of natural selection. It is considered artificial when human influences and preferences are influenced and have an effect on evolution of a species. An example of artificial selection is breeders that select certain characteristics and how they make sure the certain characteristics are made into the next generation. This is the process of how different dog breeds are made; if a breeder wanted a dog with a curly coat he would only let the curly coated dogs to breed and not mix with the straight coated dogs. In nature the most well adapted dogs would survive and reproduced but in dog breeding humans will choose dogs with the most desirable characteristics to be allowed to reproduce.Conclusions
Artificial selection has altered the lives of many humans’ animals and plants. There are many advantages and disadvantages that come into play. An advantage could be decreasing or eliminating a disease as I have said. Although disadvantages are big hurtles we have to jump such as an effect on the eco system that could potentially be irreversible as I have said above. We will have to live with the consequences of our wrong doing. I believe that artificial selections although it has been ment to benefit people I think the disadvantages over rule the advantages because the risks evolved could patiently change the way we live.
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