Genetic Improvement and Crossbreeding in Meat Goats Lessons in Animal Breeding for Goats Bred and Raised for Meat

Will R. Getz – Fort Valley State University

Appendix B. Fundamental Genetics for Understanding Breeding Stock Change Genes, Chromosomes, Alleles, Nucleus, DNA
Appendix Contents

  • Introduction
    • Genotype
    • Expected outcomes in the formation of new offspring
    • Randomness – a key to understanding this stuff
    • It ain’t all dominance and recessive
  • The Concept of Gene Frequency
    • Factors that change it and implications for meat goat breeders
    • Role of selection
    • Simply-inherited versus polygenic traits
    • Threshold traits