Official NUC CCMAS syllabus

CPS 304 — Crop Genetics and Breeding

CPS department course · Nigerian universities

What you'll be able to do (official learning outcomes)

• explain the basics concepts of genetics and plant breeding
• describe specific plant breeding methods
• explain the concept of inheritance in crop plants
• explain the sexual and asexual methods of plant propagation; and
• Discuss the place of plant breeding in crop improvement

Course contents

Cell structure and components, chromosomes; structure, number and variations, linkage and crossing over, mutation and genes in population. Multiple alleles, mitosis and meiosis. Theory of 214 New Agricultural Science evolution. Fundamental principles of inheritance. Mendelism. Introduction to population and quantitative genetics.

Source: the Nigerian Universities Commission (NUC) Core Curriculum and Minimum Academic Standards (CCMAS). StudyOps loads this syllabus automatically when you study CPS 304.

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