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)?

Which of the following is an incorrect statement?

_____ is done to evolve pure line of an animal.

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

The inbreeding for five generations led to the production of homozygous transgenic mice. However, these homozygous males or females were infertile. Which of the following approaches is most economical and preferable to obtain heterozygous transgenic animals continuously?

Mule is used to transport heavy loads in tough mountain ranges. This animal is an example of

Inbreeding depression means reduction in fertility due to continued inbreeding and this is overcome by mating the animals with

Mating of animals within the same breed but having no common ancestors on either side of their pedigree up to 4-6 generations are called

In MOET, a superior female animal is induced to superovulate by administering

In cattle, homozygous pure lines can be attained by

The crossing of unrelated pure breeding animals of different traits within the same breed is known as

Breeding in between the animals of same breed for 4 - 6 generations is called

Which male and female sheep were crossed to produce Hisardale , a new breed of sheep development in Punjab?

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
