Question

Describe artificial selection by giving the example of red cabbage.
Give answer according to 6 marks question.​

Answer 1

The farmers have been cultivating Wild cabbage as a food plant for over thousands of years ago and have produced entirely different looking vegetables like cabbage , broccoli , cauliflower , kohlrabi , and kale from it by artificial selection....

• Some Farmers wanted to have very short distance between the leaves of wild cabbage and produced the common variety of cabbage.
• the arrested flower development of wild cabbage plant , it leads to the production of another variety of cabbage called ' '' Broccoli ''..
• sterilize Flower of wild cabbage , and developed another variety of cabbage known as '' cauliflower ''
• the swollen part of wild cabbage , it leads to  kohlrabi .
• large leaves of wild cabbage and ended up producing a leafy vegetable . called " kale " .

Answer 2

Answer:The breeding of plants and animals to produce desirable traits. Organisms with the desired traits, such as size or taste, are artificially mated or cross-pollinated with organisms with similar desired traits.

Explanation: Red cabbage is an example of artificial selection as man has selected some genes over others to transform wild cabbage into kale, cauliflower, red cabbage and broccoli. These forms may not have arisen in the normal course of evolution.