Official NUC CCMAS syllabus

ANS 501 — Applied Animal Breeding and Genetics

ANS department course · Nigerian universities

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Course contents

Characters of economic importance in farm animals. Statistical tools for studying inheritance. Partitioning phenotypic variance and covariance. Estimation of genetic parameters (heritability, repeatability, genetic correlations). Selection principles and methods. Breeding (mating) systems.

Source: the Nigerian Universities Commission (NUC) Core Curriculum and Minimum Academic Standards (CCMAS). StudyOps loads this syllabus automatically when you study ANS 501.

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