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True dat. Selective Breeding was not the ONLY thing i wrote in my answer by the wayrem
remember that in selective breeding, only similiar plants or plants of the same species can breed...in the same way take an example you cannot cross a lion with a cheetah....right? but genes can be transferred irrespective of the species......for example there is a type of jelly fish which has a gene which causes the jelly fish to give a blue colour when it is in stress.....that gene was inserted into a sheep which also glowed blue......
since the question said varieties of colours, you cannot get a very large variety through selective breeding, because only limited alleles/genes are involved....however through genetic engineering the case is totally opposite.