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Course code: BHS10032o17Semester: 2017/2018 winter
Name: Advanced Animal Breeding
Major: Animal Science
Study Type: first cycle
Course type: compulsory
Study Semester: 5
ECTS points: 4
Hours (Lectures / Tutorials / Other): 15 / 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: After course completion In area of knowledge 1. Student has general knowledge on animal and plant production. 2. Student has general knowledge on animal and plant breeding. In area of skills 1. tudent is able to analyze each stage of animal breeding. 2. Student knows methods of breeding value evaluation and performance recording.
Competences: 1. Student is aware of a need of permanent education and study in a field of animal breeding.
Prerequisites: -
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: 1. 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. 2. Żuk B., Wierzbicki H., Zatoń-Dobrowolska M., Kulisiewicz Z. Genetyka populacji i metody hodowlane. PWRiL, Warszawa 2011. 3. Żuk B. Metody genetyki populacji w hodowli zwierząt. PWRiL, Warszawa 1973. 4. Żuk B. Biometria stosowana. PWN, Warszawa 1989. 6. Falconer D.S., Mackay T.F.C. Introduction to quantitative genetics. 4th ed. Longman House, Burnt Mill, Harlow, England, 1996.
Assessment methods: Written exam - duration 90 min. 60% of correct answers to pass.
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