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Anita_op--Anita op 13:42, 12 December 2009 (UTC) Welcome to the learning project on Anita op!

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ANIMAL BREEDING AND GENETICS
Summary:

This page is designed to provide information on Animal Breeding tools, basic knowledge of Animal Breeding and genetics, and to act as a communication point for Animal Breeders throughout the world.

Content summary
This page offers links to further readings related to the topic, and offers lectures about animal breeding basics.

Goals
Information This page offers link to information on Animal Breeding and Genetics

Users Anybody interested in the Animal Breeding and Genetics field, Animal Breeders, Students, Teachers, Producers, and local farmers are welcomed to join.

How to help

 * We can have this box here during the writing process, then we will move the contents to a more suitable place.
 * Question: Was this place reserved for the "tutorial" part of our project, or to distinguish between people according to their animal breeding experiences?

Read - Write - Contribute

Lessons
Drop down arrow on the right side of boxes.

 Your original proposal
 * 1) What is Animal Breeding?
 * 2) History of Animal Breeding
 * 3) Why do Animal Breeding?
 * 4) Importance of Animal Breeding
 * 5) Basic concepts of Inheritance
 * 6) Mendel's Experiments
 * 7) Mendel's Laws of Inheritance
 * 8) Evolution and Darwin
 * 9) The concept of Genetic Diversity
 * 10) Mutation
 * 11) Natural Selection
 * 12) Migration
 * 13) Genetic Drift
 * 14) Importance of maintaining Diversity
 * 15) Animal Selection
 * 16) Types of Traits
 * 17) Importance of Traits
 * 18) Production Traits vs. Fitness Traits
 * 19) Selection Mechanisms
 * 20) Tools for Selection
 * 21) Animal Indicators
 * 22) Data Recording and Importance
 * 23) Reproduction Indicators
 * 24) Production Indicators
 * 25) Health Data

 After our short meeting
 * Focus on developing countries and biodiversity issues
 * Short description (definitions) of the theoretical part (mutation, migration, etc.)
 * Leave out "Basic concepts of Inheritance" part
 * Parts in bold are more important
 * This is still an early (but more specific) concept. Feel free to suggest changes. G.
 * I talked with Maria today, if she has some suggestions (as she is very experienced this topic). She suggested to focus on cattle, as there is more information published which could be important for us because of our time constraint.


 * 1) Keep these sections relatively short
 * 2) History of Animal Breeding - short section, maybe even leave out
 * 3) Mutation
 * 4) Natural Selection
 * 5) Migration
 * 6) Genetic Drift
 * 7) What is Animal Breeding?
 * 8) Why do Animal Breeding?
 * 9) Importance of Animal Breeding
 * 10) The concept of Genetic Diversity
 * 11) What is Biodiversity
 * 12) Importance of maintaining Diversity
 * 13) Animal Selection
 * 14) Types of Traits
 * 15) Importance of Traits
 * 16) Production Traits vs. Fitness Traits/Adaptation to the local environment
 * 17) Selection Mechanisms
 * 18) Tools for Selection
 * 19) Animal Indicators
 * 20) Data Recording and its Importance - this is in fact an important part, but I doubt we will have time for this.
 * 21) Reproduction Indicators
 * 22) Production Indicators
 * 23) Health Data

Why wiki format? At some point of your final "report" you should mention also how these two things (i.e. the wiki and the developing country topic) are related. The main point in here would be the possibility to distribute the information in an effective way. In case of no Internet connection it is still possible to put these on the USB (WOS). The wiki interface is easy to handle - especially with your tutorial. Also it is very flexible in terms of updating the information. Idea: One can have a central, trusted place for the newest information and update the "sticks" from there. One still needs a computer though... There is also a very nice summary on Wikiresources/why this tool? you can check.

Readings and other resources

 * delicious.com/gbaor/biodiversity
 * delicious.com/gbaor/development
 * delicious.com/gbaor/agriculture
 * delicious.com/gbaor/livestock

Animal Breeding Resources:
 * User:Gbaor/External link collection
 * delicious.com/gbaor/animalbreeding

Animal Production Resources:

Genetics Resources:
 * User:Gbaor/External link collection
 * delicious.com/gbaor/genetics

Organic Production and Agroforestry Resources: - too far from our topic (G)

Tests and quizzes

 * Quiz 1:
 * Quiz 2:
 * Test 1:

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