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Strategies for Enhancement in Food Production
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Define inbreeding. What is the danger of inbreeding ?

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Inbreeding - When two individuals of  the same breed are mated.
Inbreeding leads to inbreeding  depression that is the productivity and fertility of the organisms is reduced. It exposes harmful recessive genes.

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