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The book is prepared to serve as a text book for senior undergraduate and post graduate students. The book is written in simple language and even complex terms have been reduced for easy understanding. Biostatistic and Biometrical Genetics provides up-to-date information about almost all basic principles, basic techniques, biometrical Genetic methods and analysis available in the literature. Due importance has been given to both the theoretical and practical aspects of the subject. The book will serve as an in-depth guide to the students of genetics and plant breeding interested in identifying most biomaterial techniques and knowing their role in crop improvement programmes. The book will also be helpful for the statisticians who are working in collaboration with the geneticists and plant breeders.

Contents: 1. Introduction and history. 2. Organizing and summarizing data. 3. Measurement of central tendencies. 4. Sampling. 5. Experimental designs. 6. Probability. 7. Correlation and regression. 8. Student’s t-distribution.9. Chi-square test. 10. Analysis of variance (ANOVA). 11. Qualitative genetic analysis. 12. Biometical genetics and variability analysis. 13. Genetic variances. 14. Gene action in breeding population. 15. Heritability and genetic advance. 16. Combining ability. 17. Heterosis and inbreeding depression. 18. Path coefficient analysis. 19. Discriminant function technique. 20. Diallel mating design. 21. Partial diallel. 22. Line x tester analysis. 23. Triallel and quadriallel analysis. 24. Scale test and component of generation mean. 25. North Carolina designs of biparental mating. 26. Adaption in crop plant. 27. Analysis of stability parameters.