As director of the newly-minted Institute of Cytology and Genetics, Belyaev was curious as to how dogs first became domesticated. He decided that to fully understand the process, he must attempt to replicate the early days of domestication. He picked foxes for the experiment because of their close family ties with dogs (both are canids).What is the key explicit meaning of this passage?

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As director of the newly-minted Institute of Cytology and Genetics, Belyaev was curious as to how dogs first became domesticated. He decided that to fully understand the process, he must attempt to replicate the early days of domestication. He picked foxes for the experiment because of their close family ties with dogs (both are canids).What is the key explicit meaning of this passage?
(1 point)• The personality differences between dogs and foxes affect their ability to be domesticated

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The key explicit meaning of the passage is that Belyaev aimed to understand dog domestication by studying foxes, which are closely related to dogs, and he sought to replicate the early domestication process.