There are 5 very important aspects that should be considered in animal breeding: Definitions A trait is “a distinguishing phenotypic characteristic, typically belonging to an individual”. In practice this means anything you can record or measure on an individual. A phenotype is that what you observe or measure on the animal for a certain trait. It can depend both on the genetic background of the animal (provided it is heritable) and external circumstances such as level of nutrition Heritable traits Being able to predict the success of animal breeding relies on one very important factor that we…
The history of animal breeding
