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Animal Husbandry |
the agricultural practice of breeding and raising livestock |
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Dairying |
the management of animals for milk and its products |
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Poultry |
the class of domesticated fowl used for food or for their eggs |
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Breed |
a group of animals related by descent and similar in most characters like general appearance, features, size, configuration, etc. |
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Inbreeding |
mating of more closely related individuals within the same breed for 4-6 generations |
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Inbreeding Depression |
the reduced biological fitness (fertility or productivity) in a given population as a result of inbreeding, or breeding of related individuals |
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Outbreeding |
breeding of unrelated animals (out-crossing, cross-breeding, inter-specific hybridisation) |
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Out-crossing |
mating animals within same breed, but having no common ancestors on either side of their pedigree for up to 4-6 generations |
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Cross-breeding |
breeding of superior males of one breed with superior females of another breed (to combine desirable qualities of both) |
Hisardale sheep = Bikaneri ewes + Marino rams |
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Inter-specific hybridisation |
breeding male and female animals of two different related species |
mules (=> economic value) |
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MOET |
Multiple Ovulation Embryo Transfer Technology |
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Apiculture |
the maintenance of hives of honey bees for the production of honey |
Bee-keeping |
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Fishery |
catching, processing or selling of fish, shellfish, or other aquatic animals |
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Freshwater Fish / Marine Fish Examples |
Catla, Rohu, common carp / Hilsa, sardines, mackerel, pomfrets |
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Pisciculture |
culturing of fish (fish-farming) for their products and as food |
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Aquaculture |
salt/ freshwater breeding of aquatic flora and fauna for commercial use |
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Plant Breeding |
the purposeful manipulation of plant species in order to create desired plant types that are better suited for cultivation, give better yields and are disease-resistant |
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Classical Plant Breeding |
crossing or hybridisation of pure lines, followed by artificial selection to produce plants with desirable traits (higher yield, nutrition and resistance to diseases) |
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Germplasm Collection |
entire collection of plants/ seeds having all the diverse alleles for all genes in a given crop |
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Mutation |
process by which genetic variations are created through changes in the basement sequence within genes resulting in the creation of a new character or trait not found in the parental type |
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Biofortification |
breeding crops with higher levels of vitamin and minerals, or higher protiend and healthier fats |
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SCPs |
Single Cell Protein. Eg: Methylophilus methylotrophus |
Spirulina |
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Totipotency |
the capacity to regenerate a whole plant from any cell/ explant |
principle of tissue culture |
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Micro-propagation |
method of producing thousand of plants through tissue culture |
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Somaclones |
generically identical to the original plant from which they are grown |
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Somatic Hybridisation |
fusing isolated protoplasts (from two different varieties having desirable characters) to get hybrid protoplasts which can further be grown to form a new plant |
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