Textbook of Farm Animal Reproductive-Biotechnology

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In general, biotechnology is the application of scientific and engineering principles that use living organisms or substances from these organisms to make or modify products, enhance plants or animals, or develop microorganisms for specific uses that are beneficial to humans. It ranges from the As we enter a new millennium, the research with the greatest likely impact on both the biological sciences and the biotechnology industry will be the sequencing of the human and other genomes. Widespread interest in farm animal genomics as a method for identifying genes controlling commercially important traits started only a decade ago. Although the genomics of farm animals was relatively late to arrive on the scene compared with the genomics of crop plants, it has the advantage of being able to access the enormous amount of human genome information. Genetically modified animal products will be very important in the upcoming years due to the population growing exponentially. With this upcoming global challenge, farmers are pushed to consider alternatives to modern farming in order to produce animals quickly and efficiently. This book “Textbook of Farm Animal Reproductive-Biotechnology” comprises the importance of the most common current biotechnologies on animal production.