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Course code: BHS10032o14
Semester: 2014/2015 winter
Name: Advanced Animal Breeding
Major: Animal Science
Study Type: first cycle
Course type: compulsory
Study Semester: 5
ECTS points: 5
Hours (Lectures / Tutorials / Other): 30 / 30 / 0
Lecturer: dr hab. Heliodor Wierzbicki, prof nadzw.
Language of instruction: Polish / English
The course taught in English if the group has ≥6 students. The course taught in Polish with a possibility of support in English if the group has <6 students

Learning outcomes: Knowledge: student understands mathematical description of quantitative traits of animals bred by human; student knows and understands definitions of coefficients describing effect of genes on quantitative traits, and knows how to estimate these coefficients; student understands the meaning of breeding value, knows non-genetic effects influencing breeding value, knows methods of breeding value evaluation; student understands associations between breeding goals and accuracy of estimating genetic parameters and breeding values. Skills: student describes and analyzes quantitative traits using mathematical terminology ; student is able to estimate genetic parameters and their accuracy; student assesses sources of information about breeding value, and then uses them to evaluate breeding value taking into account non-genetic effects; student can estimate genetic differential and genetic trend.

Competences: Personal and social competences (attitudes and behaviors): student understandsconsecutive steps of breeding program; can predict effects of breeding decisions; student is aware of globalization in animal breeding; student is aware of relation between effects of animal breeding and access to information.

Prerequisites: algebra, statistics, genetics, animal husbandry

Course content: The overall purpose of the course is to provide students with theoretical knowledge and practical skills concerning genetic variation in populations of animals bred by human and methods used for evaluating the breeding value, selecting animals, mating and crossbreeding animals and estimating heterosis effects.

Recommended literature: Kulisiewicz Z., Wierzbicki H., Zwolińska-Bartczak I., Żuk B. Metody hodowlane. Przewodnik do ćwiczeń. Skrypty Akademii Rolniczej we Wrocławiu nr 476, Wydawnictwo Akademii Rolniczej we Wrocławiu, Wrocław 2002. Żuk B., Wierzbicki H., Zatoń-Dobrowolska M., Kulisiewicz Z. Genetyka populacji i metody hodowlane. PWRiL, Warszawa 2011. Żuk B. Metody genetyki populacji w hodowli zwierząt. PWRiL, Warszawa 1973. Żuk B. Biometria stosowana. PWN, Warszawa 1989. Falconer D.S., Mackay T.F.C. Introduction to quantitative genetics. 4th ed. Longman House, Burnt Mill, Harlow, England, 1996.

Assessment methods: Completion of laboratory training. Written exam.

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