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Management of Natural Resources
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What is pure line?

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Pure line is a series of generations of homozygous organisms which have originated from a single homozygous ancestor through self fertilization or identical ancestors through inbreeding. Members of a pure line breed true, that is, produce offspring which are similar to them.

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