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Nov 30, 2009
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artifi'cial selec'tion




a process in the breeding of animals and in the cultivation of plants by which the breeder chooses to perpetuate only those forms having certain desirable inheritable characteristics.

Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.

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