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Meat products
Any kind of animal flesh that is eaten or sold as a marketable product.
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flock
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A group of sheep (or goats); alternatively all the sheep on a property, or all the sheep in a region or country.
maternal effect
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The effect that a dam’s maternal ability may have on a trait. For example, the effect of milk yield on weaning weight.
linebreeding
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A form of inbreeding which increases the average relationship of the individuals in a flock to an outstanding ancestor or line of ancestors.
inbreeding
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Production of progeny from closely related parents. Inbreeding increases the number of homozygous gene pairs and decreases the number of heterozygous gene pairs. Inbreeding ...
homozygous
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Each gene of a specific gene pair is the same in an individual (i.e. AA).
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