Animal Breeding

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Credits 3. 2 Lecture Hours. 2 Lab Hours. A systems approach to selection and mating of livestock; gene frequency, heritability, relationship, inbreeding, linebreeding, heterosis, crossbreeding, direct and correlated response to selection, and use of pedigree, family, progeny testing and indices for selection. Prerequisites: Grade of C or better in ANSC 111 and ANSC 113 ; GENE 301 ; STAT 301 , STAT 302 , STAT 303 , or ANSC 309 ; junior classification or approval of instructor.