Inbreeding can have harmful effects in populations because mating between related individuals results in more frequent cases of inbreeding depression in individuals in the population. increases the chance that deleterious and lethal recessive alleles will combine to produce homozygotes with harmful traits. causes a reduction in heterozygosity in the population. results more frequently in homozygotes with two alleles that are identical by state. results more frequently in homozygotes with two alleles that are identical by descent.

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Aurora Crosby

22 November, 21:53

Inbreeding can have harmful effects in populations because mating between related individuals results in more frequent cases of inbreeding depression in individuals in the population. increases the chance that deleterious and lethal recessive alleles will combine to produce homozygotes with harmful traits. causes a reduction in heterozygosity in the population. results more frequently in homozygotes with two alleles that are identical by state. results more frequently in homozygotes with two alleles that are identical by descent.

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Katrina · Answer 1

increases the chance that deleterious and lethal recessive alleles will combine to produce homozygotes with harmful traits.

April Buck · Answer 2

Answer: increases the chance that deleterious and lethal recessive alleles will combine to produce homozygotes with harmful traits.

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Unlike crossbreeding, inbreeding encourages the mating of organisms of same species; thus preventing the introduction of other desirable traits and a state of continuous monopoly in transmission of inherited traits (both beneficial and deleterious)