- Understand the concepts of growth and development of domestic animals.
- Knowledge of factors which control normal and abnormal growth of bone, skeletal muscle and adipose tissue.
- Understand how to use Absolute, Average Absolute, Relative and Average Relative Growth curves to define growth and the best application of each
type of curve when trying to describe growth of an animal.
- Understand the anatomical, physiological, developmental and biochemical aspects of muscle.
- Be able to recognize how different biochemical and physiology considerations can influence growth at the cellular level i. e. enzymes, hormones,
organ size.