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ANIM 414: Applied Animal Breeding

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Principles of selection; genetic effect of selection; selection for different kinds of gene action.  Basis for selection.  Methods of selection, Response to selection and factors affecting it.  Systems of mating; Systems of breeding and selection for the genetic improvement of various species of livestock.  Special problems of implementing genetic improvement of livestock programmes in the tropics (with particular reference to Ghana); Open nucleus breeding schemes.