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Biology 1st Edition by Jung Choi, Jean DeSaix, Yael Avissar, Vladimir Jurukovski, Robert Wise,Connie Rye, OpenStax
Edition 1ISBN: 978-1938168093Biology 1st Edition by Jung Choi, Jean DeSaix, Yael Avissar, Vladimir Jurukovski, Robert Wise,Connie Rye, OpenStax
Edition 1ISBN: 978-1938168093 Exercise 14
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?
A) Close relatives are genetically incompatible.
B) The DNA of close relatives reacts negatively in the offspring.
C) Inbreeding can bring together rare, deleterious mutations that lead to harmful phenotypes.
D) Inbreeding causes normally silent alleles to be expressed.
A) Close relatives are genetically incompatible.
B) The DNA of close relatives reacts negatively in the offspring.
C) Inbreeding can bring together rare, deleterious mutations that lead to harmful phenotypes.
D) Inbreeding causes normally silent alleles to be expressed.
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Genetic material of close relatives is h...
Biology 1st Edition by Jung Choi, Jean DeSaix, Yael Avissar, Vladimir Jurukovski, Robert Wise,Connie Rye, OpenStax
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