State the role of heredity and historical background.
(N/A) Humans knew from as early as $8000-1000$ $B.C.$ that one of the causes of variation was hidden in sexual reproduction.
They exploited the variations that were naturally present in the wild populations of plants and animals to selectively breed and select for organisms that possessed desirable characters.
For example,through artificial selection and domestication from ancestral wild cows,we have well-known Indian breeds,e.g.,$Sahiwal$ cows in $Punjab$.
We must,however,recognise that though our ancestors knew about the inheritance of characters and variation,they had very little idea about the scientific basis of these phenomena.
They exploited the variations that were naturally present in the wild populations of plants and animals to selectively breed and select for organisms that possessed desirable characters.
For example,through artificial selection and domestication from ancestral wild cows,we have well-known Indian breeds,e.g.,$Sahiwal$ cows in $Punjab$.
We must,however,recognise that though our ancestors knew about the inheritance of characters and variation,they had very little idea about the scientific basis of these phenomena.
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