Principles of Inheritance and Variation — BIOLOGY STD 12 Science — Question

Artificial selection is the selective breeding of plants and animals to include beneficial traits in them. This is also called selective breeding. While some selective breeding can be purely artificial, many others are natural breeding done in a controlled environment. From the point of ethics, it may be wrong to go for artificial selection. But if we follow the law of natural selection and survival of the fittest, then it can be safely assumed the even in case of artificial selection only those varieties are going to survive which are fit to survive. Hence, it can be inferred that artificial selection is not going to affect the process of natural selection.