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Animal breeding is the branch of animal science that uses quantitative and molecular genetic methods to evaluate and select livestock for superior production and performance traits. It applies population genetics, statistics and genetic analysis to systematically improve heritable characteristics such as growth rate, milk yield and meat quality across generations. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Animal breeding is a branch of animal science that addresses the evaluation of the genetic value of livestock. 1
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Animal breeding is a branch of animal science that addresses the evaluation of the genetic value of livestock.
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Later he became a talented agriculturist landowner in Szabadka area, who following the steps of Count István Széchenyi gained distinction by developing Hungarian horse breeding.
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Jay Laurence Lush (Wikipedia)
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Jay Laurence Lush (January 3, 1896, May 1, 1982) was a pioneering animal geneticist who made important contributions to livestock breeding.
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Glenn Wade Salisbury (1910-1994) was an American agriculture reproductive biologist who was a leading figure in promoting the use of artificial insemination in dairy cows to maximize the use of superior paternal genes.
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Wikipedia: Harry L. Garrigus
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Harry Lucian Garrigus (August 18, 1876, July 10, 1968) was an American animal scientist, livestock breeder, and educator who worked at the University of Connecticut (UConn) from 1900 to 1942.
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Wikipedia: Maurycy Trybulski
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Maurycy Cyril Trybulski (1883, August 8, 1944) was a Polish academic and animal breeder.
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R. W. Wheldon (Wikipedia)
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Prof Robert William Wheldon FRSE (1893-1954) was a 20th-century British agriculturalist and cattle-breeder.
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Walter Russell Shaw (Wikipedia)
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On his return to Prince Edward Island, he farmed for several years, becoming a noted livestock breeder.
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Robert R. Ness (Wikipedia)
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Robert R. Ness (January 29, 1872, October 21, 1960) was a Canadian politician and a breeder, importer and exporter of Ayrshire cattle.
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Leif Andersson (born 1954) is a Swedish animal geneticist and professor of functional genomics at Uppsala University.
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Harris Lewin (Wikipedia)
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In 2011, Lewin won the Wolf Prize in Agriculture for his research into cattle genomics.
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