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Inbreeding is carried out in animal husbandry because it
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increases homozygosity
increases homozygosity
.. Inbreeding increases homozygosity, i.e, it is a state of possessing two idential alleles, one inherited from each parent. It is necessary if we want to evolve a pureline in any animal. Inbreeding exposes harmful recessive genes that are elimination of less desirable genes.
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