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Ch. 19 - Genetic Analysis of Quantitative Traits

Chapter 19, Problem 24

Cattle breeders would like to improve the protein content and butterfat content of milk produced by a herd of cows. Narrow sense heritability values are 0.60 for protein content and 0.80 for butterfat content. The average percentages of these traits in the herd and the percentages of the traits in cows selected for breeding are as follows. Trait Herd Average Selected Cows Protein content 20.2% 22.7% Butterfat content   6.5%   7.4% Which trait is likely to be the most responsive to artificial selection applied by the cattle breeders through selection of cows for mating?

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