Question

Hunting is a form of artificial selection. Defend or refute this statement based on the principles of artificial selection.

Answer 1

D. Hunting is a form of negative artificial selection, with the genes that humans want (i.e., the biggest buck or largest fish), being removed from the gene pool, allowing the less wanted genes to pass on to the next generation.

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Answer 2

"The hunting is a type of the negative artificial selection, along with genes or the traits that are required, it can also be used for removal of the gene pool, which can be controlled by permitting the traits wanted in subsequent generation."

Step-by-step explanation:

The method of artificial selection based on the fact selective crosses, which is being done by the humans, in order to choose required phenotypic traits. Similarly, we can also refer it as the artificial selection have been done in combining required traits on something in the environment, so that it will become adaptable to changing environment. Perhaps, hunting deletes the traits of the environment because of which death occurs due to hunting. Due to this, hunting is known to have a negative artificial selection.