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6. What is Positive Assortive Mating?
- mating animals with similar phenotypes (features), in attempt to increase their traits in their offspring
- to give them different traits in their offspring
- breeding different breeds together
7. What is a health problem in males?
- ovarian tumours
- prostate problems
- brucella canis
8. What is Genetic Engineering?
- to regulate its oestrus cycle
- contains engineered or altered genetic material through modern biotechnology that can give them a new trait
- to change the animals appearance completely
9. What is Cloning?
- a somatic cell is turned in to an egg cell from the DNA
- form of contraception
- regulating the cycles
10. What is an inbreeding coefficient?
- gives the probability of how genetically similar or closely related two individuals are. higher coefficient means the more closely related they are
- to breed different species together
- to breed different breeds together
11. What is Embryo Transfer?
- increase eggs, then inseminated over and over, eggs are collected and the best are transferred to different females
- it is done to regulate the oestrus cycle
- cloning a somatic cell
12. What is IVF?
- increase the number of eggs
- eggs are taken from an infertile female, fertilized outside the body and then put back in to a surrogate or frozen
- regulate the oestrus cycle
13. What is a health problem in females?
- cystic fibrosis
- hypothyroidism
- a cold
14. What is superovulation?
- a disease
- increase the number of ova, so she produces more eggs, so more potential of mating
- regulate the oestrus cycle
- multiply the cells
15. What is a gene pool?
- a genetic disease
- combination of all versions of all the genes of a species
- a chromosome
- a locus