Applied Genetics Review

What is Genetic variation?

• The difference in the DNA among members of a species.

• Are features that are visible when you look at an animal. E.g. Aberdeen angus cattle are polled (hornless)

• The process by which humans breed plants or animals with desirable traits and concentrate on those desirable traits in the offspring

• Involves the manipulation of hereditary characteristics in order to improve or produce desirable characteristics in offspring.

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What is Selective breeding ?

• The difference in the DNA among members of a species.

• Are features that are visible when you look at an animal. E.g. Aberdeen angus cattle are polled (hornless)

• The process by which humans breed plants or animals with desirable traits and concentrate on those desirable traits in the offspring

• Involves the manipulation of hereditary characteristics in order to improve or produce desirable characteristics in offspring.

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What is Applied genetics?

• The difference in the DNA among members of a species.

• Are features that are visible when you look at an animal. E.g. Aberdeen angus cattle are polled (hornless)

• The process by which humans breed plants or animals with desirable traits and concentrate on those desirable traits in the offspring

• Involves the manipulation of hereditary characteristics in order to improve or produce desirable characteristics in offspring.

What is genotyping?

• The evaluation of a bull’s performance by comparing its weight gain and FCR with other bulls kept under similar feed and housing conditions.

• The evaluation of the performance of a bull’s offspring compared to other bulls’ offspring under similar feed and housing conditions.

• Study of an animals DNA

• Is the process of identifying differences in the genetic make-up (genotype) of an animal by examining the animals DNA sequence and comparing to other animals

Scientific study of heredity

• Genetics

• Heredity

• Anatomy

• Biology

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Which is an application of genetic engineering?

• destroying all bacteria

• creating synthetic insulin

• producing cells from nonliving material

• preventing weeds from spreading to farmland

A complex molecule (double helix - “twisted staircase”) that carries the code for organisms’ traits, which is passed on from generation to generation.

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Who was considered to be the father of Genetics?

• Charles Darwin

• Aristotle

• John Newton

• Gregor Mendel

A mutation is

• any change that is harmful

• any change in a gene or chromosome

• any change that is helpful

• any change in the phenotype

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The scientific study of heredity.

• Biology

• Gene Therapy

• Genetic Counseling

• Genetics

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