which practices in agriculture and animal domestication demonstrate a rudimentary understanding of heredity and genetics? when foraging for edible plants, gatherers avoided plants that produced poisonous berries. to prevent injury to other livestock, ranchers removed the horns from bulls after birth. nomads selected the fastest horses for breeding. primitive societies were more likely to kill wolves that were too aggressive and keep the less aggressive ones as pets and hunting companions. farmers planted seeds from trees that produced the largest, sweetest fruits and not from trees that produced the smallest or inedible fruits.
