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Which statement BEST describes artificial selection?


Artificial selection methods are designed to increase the variation of traits in offspring using the knowledge that offspring create desired traits through their genes.


Artificial selection methods are designed to increase the variation of traits in offspring using the knowledge that offspring create desired traits through their environment.


Artificial selection methods are designed to reduce the variation of traits in offspring using the knowledge that offspring inherit desired traits through their environment.


Artificial selection methods are designed to reduce the variation of traits in offspring using the knowledge that offspring inherit desired traits through their genes.

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"Artificial selection methods are designed to reduce the variation of traits in offspring using the knowledge that offspring inherit desired traits through their genes."

Reason: artificial selection (selective breeding) chooses parents with preferred heritable traits, increasing frequency of alleles for those traits and thus reducing variation in the population.