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Marker-assisted selection, a Common card
Marker assisted selection or marker aided selection is an indirect selection process where a trait of interest is selected based on a marker linked to a trait of interest, rather than on the trait itself.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Nature
- ATK
- 66
- DEF
- 37
- Power
- 103
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 4,800
Power 103 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 45 % of WikiCards cards.
Marker-assisted selection quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Marker-assisted selection card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
This process has been extensively ______ and proposed for plant- and animal- breeding.
Answer
researched. This process has been extensively researched and proposed for plant- and animal- breeding. From the Marker-assisted selection article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Marker-assisted selection. Marker-assisted selection 66 · Astyanax 62 · Rodney Bay 58 · Erraid 53 ATK in WikiCards.
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The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- This process has been extensively researched and proposed for plant- and animal- breeding.
- For example, using MAS to select individuals with disease resistance involves identifying a marker allele that is linked with disease resistance rather than the level of disease resistance.
- The assumption is that the marker associates at high frequency with the gene or quantitative trait locus of interest, due to genetic linkage.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Marker-assisted selection article was read about 4,800 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 66 and blocks with 37: each hit it takes is cut by 15 %.
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Text : Wikipedia, Marker-assisted selection (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : explorebiology, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
