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and 50% that do not. The pollen is mixed in their respective portions.
So we have two packets of pollen in the end. We must clone the female
to create 2 females. We then use the 2 packets of pollen on each clone
separately.
When we grow out the offspring from the two females we will
select the population of the offspring that mostly resembles the mother
plant traits that we are looking to promote in the population. What
happens is that the best male pollen should have been selected by the
female as the one that she prefers. The reason for taking the 2 sets of
pollen from 2 sets of males is to create a control experiment to show
how this method actually interferes with the frequencies of the gene
pool. By right, your selection of poor male pollen will only bring about
a poorer quality population that do not resemble the female clone.
In reality we only select pollen from the best males that most
resembles the female when we use this method.
Do you remember one of the laws that breaks equilibrium?
Non-random mating and Natural selection. Well that is what we are
doing here.
The resulting offspring should have a high frequency for the
traits that we like in the mother plant.
The problem is that we do not know which male from the
bunch is the one that WON this female over, but it is quicker and less
time consuming in creating a strain that is somewhat uniform for a
specific trait.
By repeating the process we can help increase the mother
plants trait frequency in the offspring's population but we will
probably end up with some plants that are non-uniform for that trait.
The best way to achieve this process is as follows. Find a
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