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Retired technician Tom Kellom weighs a newborn lamb and uses a handheld computer to record the data and link it to data from all the lamb’s relatives. This is the basis for determining the degree to which a trait is affected by genes or by nongenetic factors such as the quality of feed.
Photo by Stephen Ausmus.
