Animal genetics / Frederick B. Hutt.

  • Hutt, Frederick Bruce, 1897-1991.
Date:
[1964]
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Credit: Animal genetics / Frederick B. Hutt. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Contents 1 Genetics 3 Scope of Genetics. Importance of Genetics in Agriculture. Beginnings. Mendel. After Mendel. 2 Simple Mendelian inheritance 14 Red Holstein-Friesian Calves. Simple Terms. Segrega¬ tion in F2 Generation. Mendel's Law of Segregation. Genotype and Phenotype. Backcrosses and Test-Cross. Simple Probabilities. Test-Crosses in Practice. In Defence of Recessivity. Tests for Recessivity. Dominant Muta¬ tions. Pedigrees. The 7 : 1 Ratio. 3 Incomplete Dominance 39 Roan Shorthorns. The Frizzle Fowl. Blue Andalusians and Other Fowls. The Palomino Horse. The M-N Blood Antigens in Man. Nature of Dominance. Detection of Heterozygotes. Dwarf Calves. 4 Dihybrids and Independent Assortment; Chi-square Tests 56 Dihybrid Cross. Probabilities Without Checkerboards. Law of Independent Assortment. Backcross of a Dihybrid. Making New Breeds to Order. Trihybrids. Polyhybrids. A Tetrahybrid F2 in Rabbits. A Tetrahybrid Test-Cross in Fowls. The Chi-square Test for Closeness of Fit: Chi- square Test Applied to Mendelian Ratios. Tests of Fit in Two-Term Ratios. Contingency Tables. 5 Interaction of Genes; Modified Ratios . 83 Complementary Genes; Walnut Combs. The 9 : 7 Ratio. Test for Independence or Identity of Similar Mutations. A 9 : 3 : 4 Ratio in Mice. Complementary Genes and Re- ix