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GENERAL ZOOTECHNICS AND GENETIC IMPROVEMENT
cod. 12503

Academic year 2007/08
2° year of course - First semester
Professor
Alberto SABBIONI
Academic discipline
Zootecnica generale e miglioramento genetico (AGR/17)
Field
Zootecnia e produzioni animali
Type of training activity
Characterising
18 hours
of face-to-face activities
1.5 credits
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Learning objectives

Provide students the basic knowledge of the genetic transmission of traits

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Course unit content

<p>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 </p>

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Bibliography

<p>Oral lessons (see also web site <a href="http://corsi.unipr.it">http://corsi.unipr.it</a>)</p>
<p>Pierce BA: Genetica, Zanichelli BO</p>

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2030 agenda goals for sustainable development

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