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Virginia Tech

ALS-3104: Animal Breeding and Genetics

Description: Principles of genetics applied to improvement of domestic animals: factors affecting genetic improvement of economically relevant traits, estimation of breeding values, heritability, genetic correlations, relationships, inbreeding, crossbreeding, genetic abnormalities, genomic selection, and gene editing; ethical reasoning in animal breeding decisions.

Pathways: 5A Quant & Comp Thnk Adv., 10 Ethical Reasoning

Course Hours: 3 credits

Corequisites: N/A

Crosslist: N/A

Repeatability: N/A

Sections Taught: 12

Average GPA: 3.13 (rounds to B)

Strict A Rate (No A-) : 28.26%

Average Withdrawal Rate: 1.30%

Rebecca Cockrum202440.2%39.4%11.2%4.0%4.1%1.1%3.044
Heather L Bradford202034.3%46.6%14.4%3.3%0.6%0.8%3.124
Staff Morota202366.0%22.7%5.8%1.8%1.1%2.6%3.492
Staff Amorim202446.2%40.2%10.3%3.4%0.0%0.0%3.271
Fernando H Biase202132.9%30.2%20.9%7.6%5.6%2.8%2.741

Grade Distribution Over Time

1234GPA
Spring 2019Fall 2019Spring 2020Fall 2020Spring 2021Fall 2021Spring 2022Fall 2022Spring 2023Fall 2023Spring 2024Fall 2024Term050% W