Archive Directory
- Hello and Welcome!
- Requirements of a Successful Breeder
- Traits, Phenotypes and Genotypes
- Both Genotype and Environment Shape Phenotype
- The Animal is Part of a System
- Genotype-Environment Interactions
- Graphed Examples of Genotype-Environment Interactions
- Examples of Genotype-Environment Interactions in Animals
- Knowledge of Interactions and How This Can Influence Breeding Objectives
- Breeding Objectives With the End User in Mind
- Breeding Objectives With the End Animal in Mind
- Selection and Mating
- The Selection Process
- The Mating Process
- Wrapping Up "Background Information"
- It All Began With Gregor Mendel
- Explaining Mendel's Results Visually
- Mendel's Three Laws
- How Mendel's First Two Laws Apply at the Cellular Level
- Mitosis
- Meiosis
- Genes and Mendel's Third Law
- Non-Mendelian Inheritance
- Just How Random is Genetic Inheritance?
- Explaining the Maths
- What is Population Genetics?
- Gene and Genotypic Frequencies
- The Effect of Selection on Gene and Genotypic Frequencies
- The Effect of Mating Systems on Gene and Genotypic Frequencies: Inbreeding
- The Effect of Mating Systems on Gene and Genotypic Frequencies: Outbreeding
- The Hardy-Weinberg Equlibrium and its Implications
- Random Genetic Drift
- Inbreeding and Outbreeding: The Pros and Cons of Both
- Simply-Inherited and Polygenic Traits: What They Are and Their Differences
- Simply-Inherited and Polygenic Traits: The Commonalities
- Working With Simply-Inherited and Polygenic Traits in a Breeding Programme
- Selecting for Simply-Inherited Traits
- Calculating the Probabilities of Test Mating Outcomes
- The Practicalities and Limitations of Test Matings
- Levels of Confidence in Statistics
- The Maths of Matings, Part 1
- The Maths of Matings (Supplementary to Part 1)
- The Maths of Matings, Part 2
- Summaries of Levels of Confidence and Numbers of Matings
- Effectiveness of Selection: Initial Gene Frequency and Fitness Differences
- Effectiveness of Selection: The Degree of Dominance With Respect to Fitness
- How to Calculate Changes in Gene and Genotypic Frequencies Caused by Selection, Part 1
- How to Calculate Changes in Gene and Genotypic Frequencies Caused by Selection, Part 2