A farmer wants to improve the quality of meat from her pigs to improve her earnings.She breeds together one pig from a line of compact individuals with very moist and tasty meat to another pig from a line of larger individuals with relatively tough and stringy meat.Most of the offspring are even larger than the large parent, with even more tender meat.What genetic effect is in action here?
A) Heterosis
B) Inbreeding depression
C) Incomplete dominance
D) Epistasis
E) Codominance

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Heterosis, also known as hybrid vigor, is the genetic phenomenon where the offspring of two genetically distinct parents exhibit improved traits compared to both parents. In this case, the offspring are larger and have more tender meat than either of the parents, indicating heterosis is in action.

A Farmer Wants to Improve the Quality of Meat from Her