| 单词 | progeny test |
| 释义 | > as lemmasprogeny test progeny test n. Agriculture an assessment of the genetic value of an animal or plant made by examining its progeny. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > laboratory analysis > processes > [noun] > genetic techniques selection1837 runting1893 sex control1898 progeny test1910 insemination1923 progeny-testing1926 transformation1928 translation1955 hybridization1959 transcription1961 reverse transcription1970 1910 Times 18 Oct. 15/5 A laying test..to be followed (as its complement) by what is termed a progeny test. 1918 E. B. Babcock & R. E. Clausen Genetics in Relation to Agric. xv. 293 We find that the progeny test of individual plants was first used by Le Couteur and Shirreff. But it was Louis de Vilmorin who first gave special attention to the value of the progeny test (1856). 1932 Proc. Soc. Animal Production xxiv. 52 The swine Record of Performance test is regarded as a progeny test of the sire and dam rather than as a performance test of the individual pigs which are fattened and slaughtered. 1990 Biogr. Mem. Fellows Royal Soc. 36 470 They suggested that in an AI programme young bulls would each be mated to cows from a number of herds and laid off until their progeny had lactated; and the best bulls could then be selected with high accuracy on their progeny test result. < as lemmas |
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