Livestock science and animal production technologies

Professor
Academic discipline: Zootecnica generale e miglioramento genetico (AGR/17)
Field: Discipline biologiche
Type of training activity: Basic

24 hours
of face-to-face activities

3 credits

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Integrated course unit module: ANIMAL AND PLANT BIOLOGY, GENETIC IMPROVEMENT

Learning objectives

Provide the student with the fundamentals relative to genetic transmission of traits.

Prerequisites

exam of Fisica applicata - Matematica di base applicata alle scienze biomediche Informatica medica e biologica

Course unit content

Base genetics

Full programme

The genetic transmission of traits. Mendel laws (qualitative traits, gene interactions and deviations from expected mendelian ratios; sex linked traits; lethal genes; multiple allelism).
Population genetics (Hardy-Weinberg law).
Statistic for genetics: probability, variability parameters, correlation and regression.

Bibliography

BITTANTE G., ANDRIGHETTO L., RAMANZIN M.: Fondamenti di Zootecnica. Liviana Ed., Padova, 1990
Pierce B.A.: Genetica. Zanichelli Ed., Bologna 2005
WEB SITE: http://www.unipr.it/~sabbioni/ http://www.unipr.it/arpa/facvet/d! ol/dol.htm

Teaching methods

Oral lessons

Assessment methods and criteria

Oral exam

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ZOOTECHNICAL, BIODIVERSITY AND GENETIC IMPROVEMENT cod. 1001923