Question

Animal husbandry and plant breeding programs are examples of:
A. Reverse evolution
B. Artificial selection
C. Mutation
D. Natural selection

Answer 1

Hint: Selective breeding is the process by which we humans decide the particular phenotype that would be present in the offspring. This is done by mating two animal breeds or plants breed whose characters we want in the offspring. This is also known as artificial selection.

Complete answer:
To solve the following question, we need to know what animal husbandry and plant breeding programs are.
Animal husbandry is the breeding, caring, rearing and management of animals to obtain milk, egg, meat, honey, wool, and other useful products from them. The fisheries, poultry farms and dairy farms all come under animal breeding.
Plant breeding is the rearing and management and breeding of the plant species to get the desired phenotype and genotype in the next generation.
In artificial selection, we select the desired phenotypes from both the parents that we need in the progeny. Then we mate the two parents and their offspring has all the desired traits that we want.
If we go by definition, then artificial selection is the process by which we get the phenotypes or characteristics that we want in the next generation.

Therefore, the animal husbandry and plant breeding programs are examples of artificial selection.

Note:
There are various techniques that come under animal and plant breeding. Animal breeding can be done by in-breeding, out-breeding, cross breeding, interspecific hybridization etc.