A series of eight programmes on how the most fundamental of the biological sciences is being used in a new technology 2: Breeding Animals for Food by PROFESSOR ALAN ROBERTSON Unit of Animal Genetics, Edinburgh University
Some animals have been domesticated for at least 10.000 years Yet it is barely twenty years since there has been a good scientific theory on which to base animal breeding experiments. The application of this theory is already having its effects but even these may be superseded by such developments as sex predetermination and chromosome manipulation
Second broadcast
3: Reproduction: chance and choice, by Or. R. G. Edwards : October 27