Inbreeding

... started with some reciprocal exchange of genetic material between similar individuals. But later organisms had to deal with the problem of inbreeding depression. As a result of this, a mechanism that ensures that sexual reproduction occurs only between unrelated cells, was evolved. In essence, ...

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... in different animals of the same species to determine if they are related as well as what animals would be good to mate together to prevent inbreeding in captive animal populations… you could also go with using PCR to unlock which DNA sequences do stuff in the cell but you would have to ...

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... It might still be interesting to set the appropriate chances of certain types of mutations (deleterious) in certain types of reproduction events (inbreeding, mitosis?) but I don't know much about that. Weather: I also thought about this as a fun extra. When I thought of plants I thought of seasons, ...

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Mith: thanks for the scientific explanation on "inbreeding" mcar: It makes sense that homozygosity increases due to inbreeding, but with the "one race" theory, would it really be inbreeding? Take for example china. It's population ...

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In the case of inbreeding, the chances of homozygosity increases. Most of our deleterious genes are usually expressed when they pair in such a way. Variation is said to be so important in developing many strategic and evolutionary ...

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