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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