Author:
Kristi Prohm

Date of Publication:
April 12, 2019

Publication:
The Better Breeding Blog

Excerpt:
Describing the genotype of some simply-inherited traits in an individual animal can be straightforward — horned cattle are always ‘pp’, and looking at an Andalusian chicken will tell you if it is ‘BB’ (black), ‘Bb’ (slate-blue) or ‘bb’ (white). We know the exact alleles carried, and in which proportions.

When it comes to describing the genotype of a population however, we refer to gene and genotypic frequencies instead.

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