Artificial selection
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- Created on: 26-05-15 15:30
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- Artificial selection
- Carried out to produce organisms with the characteristichumans require
- Inbreeding
- When gametes of close relatives fuse.
- Promotes homozygosity
- Plant species may show a degree loss of vigour, size and fertility
- This is called inbreeding depression
- Outbreeding
- Crossing of unrelated varieties
- Promotes heterozygosity
- Introduces vigour where organisms may grow strongly
- Occurs when new chromosomes are complementary intheir effects
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