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Meat products

Any kind of animal flesh that is eaten or sold as a marketable product.

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environment

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All conditions that affect an animal’s performance that are not genetic.

dominance

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A dominant gene affects the appearance of the sheep (phenotype). A dominant gene from only one parent will change the phenotype, even if the corresponding gene from the other ...

direct effect

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That portion of a trait due to an individual’s genotype.

deviation

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The difference between the average performance of the group and the performance of an individual in the group.

crossbreeding

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Mating of different breeds to produce multi-breed offspring.

correlation

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A measure of how two traits relate to each other. Correlation coefficients are expressed in the range –1. 00 to +1. 00. Traits which are negatively correlated act opposite, as one ...

contemporary group

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A genetically similar group of sheep born in a particular time period and raised under the same management and environmental conditions.

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