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What does outbreeding involve?


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Outbreeding:

  1. It is a type of breeding that is the opposite of inbreeding.
  2. It implies the production of offspring by mating between individuals that are unrelated to each other or distantly related through the offspring of their ancestors.
  3. The degree of outbreeding depression can be measured by the tendency towards the coefficient of inbreeding F = 0 or 0, depending on the genetic distance between the parents.

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