Try these breeding games!

Are you a Master Breeder? 

Here are a couple of cute breeding games. In the first one, you have to select for specific phenotypes of three different traits - coat length, coat color, and ear type - by making breeding decisions that will pair up the right combination of dominant and recessive traits.

You can play around with some interesting scenarios with this game. For example, what happens if you just select for one trait at a time? For example, first breed to get the ears right, then start working on coat color. Is this easier or harder?

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In this game, you have to select for a particular desirable health trait in the tigers (malaria resistance) while also keeping the level of inbreeding in the population to a reasonable level. In another scenario, you need to manage the genetic diversity in a small population of tigers that get more inbred every generation.

​Of course, in the real world breeders are juggling even more competing or even conflicting traits, and even worse you usually don't know anything about the genes in the animals. No doubt about it, breeding is tricky business!

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Did you enjoy these simulations? 
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You can learn more about the genetics of breeding dogs (and tigers) in

BASIC POPULATION GENETICS FOR DOG BREEDERS

This is a 10 week, online course, with students from all over the world.
The next class starts 7 November 2016

*** 9 November - There's still time to join us! ***

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