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Chapter 19, Problem 11RQ
When closely related individuals mate with each other, or inbreed, the offspring are often not as fit as the offspring of two unrelated individuals. Why?
- Close relatives are genetically incompatible
- The DNA of close relatives reacts negatively in the offspring
- Inbreeding can bring together rare, deleterious mutations that lead to harmful
phenotypes - Inbreeding causes normally silent alleles to be expressed.
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