Selective breeding
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Selective breeding
Hello; i am new to the forum.
I would like to ask you about selective breeding and the chances of producing a Taurus (bull) that displayed favourable traits and phenotypes of 2 selectively-picked cattle; thus to produce a better offspring as a result.
Taurus have 30 chromosome pairs; so what are the potential outcomes of the breeding?
How do favourable phenotypes become dominant? is that just a result of the phenotype being heterozygous dominant?
Am i correct in thinking that it is important to keep as many different phenotype combinations in genes as possible; as this allows for diversity within a species?!? if the potential phenotypic combinations were reduced; would this mean that the species would begin to look more and more alike with continued breeding?
Thank you for your time and help; much appreciated.
I would like to ask you about selective breeding and the chances of producing a Taurus (bull) that displayed favourable traits and phenotypes of 2 selectively-picked cattle; thus to produce a better offspring as a result.
Taurus have 30 chromosome pairs; so what are the potential outcomes of the breeding?
How do favourable phenotypes become dominant? is that just a result of the phenotype being heterozygous dominant?
Am i correct in thinking that it is important to keep as many different phenotype combinations in genes as possible; as this allows for diversity within a species?!? if the potential phenotypic combinations were reduced; would this mean that the species would begin to look more and more alike with continued breeding?
Thank you for your time and help; much appreciated.
Diversity is often reduced in selective breeding - think of the problems that have arisen in many dog breeds.
Selective breeding won't change dominance, but it will change prevalence, how common an allele is in a breeding population.
If you're working with just 2 parents, even selected ones, unless you know their alleles and how the coded proteins interact, you'll just be guessing about how the offspring will turn out. That's how classic selected breeding works.
Selective breeding won't change dominance, but it will change prevalence, how common an allele is in a breeding population.
If you're working with just 2 parents, even selected ones, unless you know their alleles and how the coded proteins interact, you'll just be guessing about how the offspring will turn out. That's how classic selected breeding works.
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Darby wrote:Diversity is often reduced in selective breeding - think of the problems that have arisen in many dog breeds.
Selective breeding won't change dominance, but it will change prevalence, how common an allele is in a breeding population.
If you're working with just 2 parents, even selected ones, unless you know their alleles and how the coded proteins interact, you'll just be guessing about how the offspring will turn out. That's how classic selected breeding works.
Thank you.
That is very helpful.
Do you have any more information regarding on how 'coded proteins' interact?
Thanks again.
JackBean wrote:when you breed animals, you usually want rather uniform specimen
Thank you for your reply.
So you would want something to continue the better phenotypes from the animals bred from?
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