Department of Food Production

LEVEL: III

SEMESTER: 2 

COURSE TITLE: ANIMAL BREEDING

NUMBER OF CREDITS: 3

PRE-REQUISITES: AGRI 1011 COURSE DESCRIPTION: State of art of modern animal breeding ; Mendelian, population and quantitative genetics; traits; genetics of simply inherited, quantitative, threshold and economic traits in animals; introductory animal breeding; selection and improvement of animal populations; selection principles and methods; pedigree, collateral relatives and progeny testing ; sire summaries and ONBS; breeding and improvement of animals; statistics and genetic models for traits, heritability, repeatability; correlated responses; mating systems and multi-trait selection; tropical livestock breeding; conservation genetics; modern technologies in animal breeding.

ASSESSMENT: Coursework 40% Final Examination 60%