Cattle / Genetics

Cow genome unraveled in bid to improve meat, milk on the net: Science

The cow is of the bovine ilk,
One end is moo, the other, milk.

Now science knows why which is which,
They’ve read the genome, without a hitch.

While poet Ogden Nash had cow basics down, it took 300 scientists six years to outline the genetic sequence of  “L1 Dominette 01449,” a Hereford cow living on a research farm near Miles City, Montana.

Read more. . . (Yahoo News)

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