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Degree course in
Livestock science and animal production technologies
Università degli Studi di Parma
Department of Veterinary Science

ZOOTECHNICAL, BIODIVERSITY AND GENETIC IMPROVEMENT
cod. 1001923

Academic year 2009/10
1° year of course - Second semester
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

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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

 Zootechnical systems for the production of meat, milk and other animal-based products. Structure of animal populations. Outline of genetic transmission of characteristics. Mendelian heredity (qualitative characteristics, laws of Mendel, gene interaction and deviation from expected Mendelian relationships, sex determination and sex-related heredity, lethal genes, multiple allelism). Population genetic principles (concept of genic frequency, law of Hardy-Weinberg). Statistical concepts (probability, variance, covariance, correlation and regression).

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Bibliography

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

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