A genetic trait causes double muscling in cattle.Breeders mate individuals with this trait to increase muscle mass in their herd.This is an example of ____________.

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This is an example of artificial selection because breeders are intentionally selecting certain individuals with a desired trait (double muscling) and breeding them to create a population with that trait. Natural selection is a process that occurs in nature where certain traits are favored based on their fitness in the environment, while stabilizing selection favors average traits over extreme traits, disruptive selection favors extreme traits over average ones, and core speciation refers to the splitting of a single species into two distinct species.

A Genetic Trait Causes Double Muscling in Cattle