Conventional Breeding Techniques

Conventional breeding techniques involve selecting parent plants or animals with desirable traits and crossing them to produce offspring that combine these qualities. This process, which includes methods like crossing, selection, and hybridization, relies on natural reproductive methods and genetic variation to improve characteristics such as yield, disease resistance, or flavor. It takes multiple generations to achieve the desired traits and is based on understanding and manipulating natural reproduction, making it a traditional approach to enhancing plants and animals without modern genetic modification.