What is the process of adapting wild plants and animals for human use, leading to agricultural development?

• A. Domestication
• B. Propagation
• C. Urbanization
• D. Forestation

Answer: (A)

The main concept is domestication: the long process of making wild plants and animals useful for humans by selecting traits, guiding their reproduction, and shaping their living conditions so they become easier to manage, feed, and depend on. Through selective breeding and controlled environments, populations evolve toward characteristics that support farming and food production, setting the stage for agricultural societies. This goes beyond simply reproducing organisms; propagation is a technique to produce more of a plant or animal, but it doesn’t by itself describe the broader evolutionary shift toward human dependence and usefulness. Urbanization describes city growth, not changing wild species for agriculture, and forestation focuses on restoring or creating forests rather than turning wild species into crops or livestock. So, the process described is domestication.