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Inbreeding depression
A loss of vigour or yield due to inbreeding.
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inbreeding depression In a small population, an accumulation of harmful genetic traits (through random mutations and natural selection) that lowers viability and reproductive success of enough individuals to affect the whole population.
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Inbreeding depression
Endogamy
Exogamy
Intermarriage
Pedigree collapse
Compare with: heterosis
Self-incompatibility in plants (how some plants avoid inbreeding)
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