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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: 40

Average GPA: 2.80 (B)

Strict A Rate (No A-) : 20.95%

Average Withdrawal Rate: 1.15%

Elizabeth A Dunnington201819.7%33.6%29.8%12.7%2.7%1.6%2.5317
Rebecca K Splan200937.3%40.8%16.5%4.5%0.9%0.0%3.074
Rebecca Cockrum202343.5%37.6%10.5%4.1%4.3%0.0%3.063
Bennet G Cassell200419.2%44.2%26.9%7.7%1.9%0.0%2.691
Heather L Bradford202032.5%46.9%15.6%3.4%0.9%0.6%3.075
Ronald M Lewis201331.4%37.6%20.8%7.2%2.7%0.5%2.845
Staff Morota202366.0%22.7%5.8%1.8%1.1%2.6%3.492
Staff Dorshorst201516.3%40.8%27.6%5.2%5.1%5.1%2.531
Fernando H Biase202132.9%30.2%20.9%7.6%5.6%2.8%2.741
Staff Amorim202446.2%40.2%10.3%3.4%0.0%0.0%3.271

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