Animal Breeding
Animal Breeding: Overview
This topic covers concepts such as Animal Breeding, Inbreeding, Inbreeding Depression, Outbreeding, Outcrossing, Crossbreeding, Interspecific Hybridisation, Multiple Ovulation Embryo Transfer Technology, etc.
Important Questions on Animal Breeding
The strategy used to increase homozygosity in cattle for desired traits is:

Inbreeding in a population leads to:

Which of the following is not a step in Multiple Ovulation Embryo Transfer Technology (MOET)?

Mule is produced by the combination of which of the following animals?

In animal breeding, the maximum genetic variations can be achieved through

Choose the exotic variety of the cows used in India for breeding.

Which of the following is a new breed of sheep developed in Punjab by crossing Bikaneri ewes and Marino rams?

'Hisardale' is a new breed of sheep developed in Punjab by using the following breeding technique:

In (Multiple Ovulation and Embryo Transfer) at what cell stage embryos are recovered non-surgically and transferred to surrogate mother

Which of the following statements regarding inbreeding are incorrect
The inbreeding strategies allow the desirable qualities of two different breeds to be combined.
It increases homozygosity.
It also helps in the elimination of less desirable genes.
Continued inbreeding increases fertility and productivity.

Practice of mating of superior males of one breed with superior females of another breed is

The best breeding method for animals that are below average in productivity is

By which method was a new breed ‘Hisardale’ of sheep formed by using Bikaneri ewes and Marino rams?

Multiple ovulation embryo transfer technique is used for

Mule is outcome of

Interspecific hybridization between ____and ____ produced a mule.

Multiple ovulation and embryo transfer is a method


Which method of animal breeding was used to develop Hisardale?

In technology, which cell stage is transferred to surrogate mothers
