Question

List the importance of inbreeding.

Answer 1

When breeding is between animals of the same breed for 4–6 generations, it is called inbreeding.

Importance of inbreeding:

i. It helps in the accumulation of superior genes and elimination of undesirable genes.

ii. It develops a homozygous pureline in an animal; thus, it increases homozygosity to evolve a pureline in any animal.

iii. It exposes harmful recessive genes for undesirable characters which are eliminated by selection.