Author:
Kristi Prohm

Date of Publication:
April 5, 2019

Publication:
The Better Breeding Blog

Excerpt:
But breeding is not about improving an individual animal per se — once it has been born you can’t refine it further by tinkering with its genome. Breeding is really about improving populations of animals, such that those individuals that are born are collective improvements on their ancestors. Those individuals, collectively, then provide the genetic base that will improve their descendants, and so on.

Read the rest of the article: https://betterbreeding.solutions/index.php/blog/what-is-population-genetics