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When two related individuals (through common ancestry) are allowed to breed, they produce population with reduced fitness, vigour and physiological efficiency. This condition is known as a inbreeding depression.
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Inbreeding depression is the reduced biological fitness in a given population as a result of inbreeding, or breeding of related individuals. Population biological fitness refers to an organism's ability to survive and perpetuate its genetic material. ...
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Inbreeding depression?is the reduced biological fitness?in a given population?as a result of?inbreeding, or breeding of related individuals. Population biological fitness refers to an organism's ability to survive and perpetuate its genetic material. Inbreeding depression is often the result of a?population bottleneck. In general, the higher the?genetic variation?or?gene pool?within a breeding population, the less likely it is to suffer from inbreeding depression.
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