inbreeding

Question 1

consanguineous matings and recessive traits

Answer 1

• increasing heterozygotes when people from outside family mate in

Question 2

advantage of NOT inbreeding

Answer 2

keep introducing dominant alleles that you might be lacking in your progeny

Question 3

inbreeding depression

Answer 3

• inbreeding lines of experimental species are often less vigorous than hybrid lines
• inbreed lines of self-fertilized plants are homozygous for alleles that were present in the founding line

Question 4

Heterosis

Answer 4

when two different inbred lines are crossed, the hybrids are heterozygous for many genes

Question 5

inbreeding

Answer 5

mating within the family that increases frequency of homozygotes
- preferred in plants