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GENERAL ZOOTECHNICS AND GENETIC IMPROVEMENT
cod. 1000539

Academic year 2008/09
1° year of course - First semester
Professor
Alberto SABBIONI
Academic discipline
Zootecnica generale e miglioramento genetico (AGR/17)
Field
Biologia
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 AND ANIMAL GENETICS

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Learning objectives

To give the students the fundamentals of the genetic transmission of traits.

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Course unit content

Zootechnical systems for the production of meat, milk and other animal-based products. <br />
ZOOTECNIC DEMOGRAPHY <br />
Structure of animal populations. <br />
GENETIC IMPROVEMENT OF ANIMALS IN ZOOTECHNICAL PRODUCTION <br />
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 and genotypic frequency, law of Hardy-Weinberg). Brief references to statistical concepts (probability, variance, covariance, correlation and regression). Quantitative traits(variability, composition of phenotype environmental variability, additive and non-additive effect of genes, heritability, repeatability). 

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Bibliography

<p>Pierce BA. Genetica, Zanichelli BO, 2005</p>
<p>Bittante G et al.: Fondamenti di Zootecnica, Liviana ed., PD, 1990</p>

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