Look up: inbreeding

1. Inbreeding
   Production of offspring from parents more closely related than the average of a population. Inbreeding increases the proportion of homozygous gene pairs and decreases the proportion of heterozygous gene pairs. Also, inbreeding increases prepotency and facilitates expression of undesirable recessive genes.
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2. inbreeding
   [n] - the act of mating closely related individuals
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3. Inbreeding
   Inbreeding: The mating of two closely related persons. Also called consanguinity.
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4. Inbreeding
   Mating of close relatives resulting in increased genetic uniformity in the offspring.
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5. inbreeding
   The mating of two closely related persons. Also called consanguinity. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...
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6. inbreeding
   noun the act of mating closely related individuals
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7. inbreeding
   (in´brēd-ing) the mating of closely related individuals or of individuals having closely similar genetic constitutions.
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8. Inbreeding
   • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Inbreed
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9. inbreeding
   the mating of individuals or organisms that are closely related through common ancestry, as opposed to outbreeding, which is the mating of unrelated ... [9 related articles]
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10. inbreeding
    Type: Term Pronunciation: in′brēd-ing Definitions: 1. Mating between organisms that are genetically more closely related than organisms selected at random from the population. 2. A practice of mating animals that are closely related.
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11. inbreeding
    inbreeding, mating of closely related organisms. Inbreeding is chiefly used as a means of insuring the preservation of specific desired traits among the offspring of purebred animals (see breeding). Continued inbreeding through many generations reduces the chances for diversity of characteristics in...
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12. inbreeding
    In genetics, the mating of closely related individuals. It is considered undesirable because it increases the risk that offspring will inherit copies of rare deleterious recessive alleles (genes) from both parents and so suffer from disabilities
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13. Inbreeding
    The mating of two closely related dogs of the same breed.
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14. Inbreeding
    practice of mating siblings to each other
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15. Inbreeding
    `Inbreeding` is the reproduction from the mating of two genetically related parents. Inbreeding results in increased homozygosity, which can increase the chances of offspring being affected by recessive or deleterious traits. This generally leads to a decreased fitness of a population, which is call...
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