Deel Danny Geelen:

1. What do you know about meiotic recombination?

Deel Steven Maenhout: 2. Breeding for stable yield is hard; breeders use several methods to optimize their breeding.

• a. What is TPE (Target Population of Environments)?
• b. Which two indices relate to breeding for stable yield?
• c. ...

3. Linkage mapping:

   • a. Why does interval mapping have higher power than single marker analysis?
   • b. Explain the LOD score.
   • c. What are 3 options to correct for multiple testing? Explain them.

4. Association mapping:

   • a. What is the difference between linkage mapping and association mapping?
   • b. What is the "winner's curse"?
   • c. Drie QQ-plots zijn gegeven: verklaar en interpreteer de figuren.

5. Genomic selection:

   • a. Given the breeding scheme of Genomic Selection (GS) + Doubled Haploids (DH): explain when you perform genomic selection and why at that specific stage?
   • b. What if you cannot produce DHs for your crop? At what stage would you perform the selection?

Bijkomende mondelinge vragen over hoe permutatietesten en Poisson-distributies exact werken in deze context.

Versie 1

Deel Geert:

1. Association mapping vs. linkage mapping.
2. Statistical learning vs. machine learning.
3. Leg de getoonde figuur uit.

Deel Danny:

1. Geef een lijst van alle fenotypische kenmerken van een haploïde plant.
2. Wat is de bulbosum-methode?

Versie 2

Deel Geert en Steven:

1. Give the 3 prediction methods that we have seen. Explain them, mention the differences between the methods and give an example of each method.
2. Two figures are given: explain both figures in detail.

Deel Danny:

1. What controls the frequency and pattern of meiotic crossovers (COs)?
2. What are the advantages of apomixis in crop breeding?