Professional Certificate in Animal Breeding and Genetics

Description

What you will learn

• Describe the steps that need to be taken when setting up a breeding program.
• Describe how selection and genomic tools can be used to alleviate the effect of monogenic recessive diseases.
• Calculate family relationships and inbreeding coefficients in pedigrees and predict the rate of inbreeding for simple situations.
• Explain how family relationships between individuals can be used to estimate breeding values and describe the consequences of different selection and mating strategies for the response to selection.
• Describe how running breeding programs can be evaluated in terms of response to selection and genetic diversity.
• Describe how dissemination of improved animal populations to end-users takes place, and why this differs among animal species.
• Gain the tools and insights to improve production and work towards a healthy population