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Selective breeding also called (artificial selection.) is the process by which humans use animal breeding and plant breeding to selectively develop particular phenotypic traits (characteristics.) by choosing which typically animal or plant males and females will _exually reproduce and have offspring together. (Domesticated.) animals are known as breeds, normally bred by a professional breeder, while domesticated plants are known as (varieties.) , cultigens, or cultivars. Two purebred animals of different breeds produce a (crossbreed.) . Flowers, vegetables and fruit-trees may be bred by amateurs and commercial or non-commercial professionals: major crops are usually the provenance of the professionals.