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Any kind of animal flesh that is eaten or sold as a marketable product.
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conception rate
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The number of ewes that lamb compared to the number of ewes exposed for breeding. This is usually expressed as a percentage.
collateral relatives
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Relatives that are not progeny or parents (descendants or ascendants). For example, brothers.
closed flock
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An existing flock that does not introduce any outside breeding stock.
central test
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A central testing location where animals from different flocks are gathered to evaluate differences in performance traits under uniform management and environmental conditions.
carrier
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A heterozygous animal with one recessive and one dominant gene for a particular gene pair.
backcross
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Backcross is the mating of a two–breed animal back to one of the two parental breeds.
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