Question

Why is inbreeding dangerous?

Answer 1

Inbreeding:

1. When breeding is between animals of the same breed for 4-6 generations, it is called inbreeding.
2. Inbreeding promotes homozygosity, which raises the likelihood of the expression of detrimental recessive genes and, as a result, has the potential to reduce offspring fitness
3. Because their genomes already share numerous similarities, the higher the coefficient of inbreeding, the more biologically connected the parents are.
4. When a family's gene pool contains detrimental recessive alleles, this overall homozygosity becomes a concern.
5. Inbreeding is especially troublesome in small populations with minimal genetic variety.
6. Individuals that inbreed reduce genetic variety even more by boosting homozygosity in their offspring's genomes.
7. As a result, the risk of detrimental recessive alleles pairing is much higher in a small inbred population than in a larger inbred population..