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artificial selection

process by which humans use animal and plant breeding to selectively develop particular phenotypic traits
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artificial selection

Summary

artificial selection ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (711 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • artificial selection's image is recorded as Cornselection.jpg[2].
  • artificial selection's GND ID is recorded as 4191075-8[3].
  • artificial selection's subclass of is recorded as biological selection[4].
  • artificial selection's subclass of is recorded as intentional human activity[5].
  • artificial selection's Commons category is recorded as Breeding[6].
  • artificial selection's said to be the same as is recorded as selective breeding[7].
  • artificial selection's said to be the same as is recorded as Livestock Rearing[8].
  • artificial selection's opposite of is recorded as natural selection[9].
  • artificial selection's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01chr5[10].
  • artificial selection's NL CR AUT ID is recorded as ph126921[11].
  • artificial selection's OmegaWiki Defined Meaning is recorded as 808800[12].
  • artificial selection's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[13].
  • artificial selection's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[14].
  • artificial selection's BBC Things ID is recorded as 0e5f998e-da73-49ae-8d21-7f97fe837af0[15].
  • artificial selection's different from is recorded as biological selection[16].
  • artificial selection's different from is recorded as selection[17].
  • artificial selection's JSTOR topic ID is recorded as selective-breeding[18].
  • artificial selection's Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID is recorded as avl[19].
  • artificial selection's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[20].
  • artificial selection's Language Council of Norways termwiki ID is recorded as 3339[21].
  • artificial selection's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 12558332[22].
  • artificial selection's Krugosvet article is recorded as biologiya/selektsiya[23].
  • artificial selection's Klexikon article ID is recorded as Zucht[24].
  • artificial selection's KBpedia ID is recorded as RaisingLivingThings[25].
  • artificial selection's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C12558332[26].

Why It Matters

artificial selection ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (711 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[27] It is known by 28 alternative names across languages and contexts.[28]

Related Entities

M. S. Swaminathan

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Direct Wikidata claims

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  24. [25] ↑ . KBpedia. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  25. [26] ↑ . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [27] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [28] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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