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- thereby increasing genetic diversity. Outcrossing can be a useful technique in animal breeding. The outcrossing breeder intends to remove the traits by...
- depression.[citation needed] Outcrossing is where two unrelated individuals are crossed to produce progeny. In outcrossing, unless there is verifiable...
- the stigma to make a normal sized and shaped fruit.[citation needed] Outcrossing, or cross-fertilisation, and self-fertilisation represent different strategies...
- of outcrossing appears to be the masking of deleterious recessive mutations. The primary mechanism used by flowering plants to ensure outcrossing involves...
- less than 5%; however, in some breeds this may not be possible without outcrossing. An individual is said to be inbred if there is a loop in its pedigree...
- examined inbreeding in his writings, contrasting it with the advantages of outcrossing in many species. Charles Waring Darwin, born in December 1856, was the...
- evolution as an adaptation for the promotion of cross-fertilisation (outcrossing), a process that allows the masking of deleterious mutations in the genome...
- extensive outcross program, to increase the breed's vitality, fertility and genetic variation. The Dutch kennel club approved the outcross programme in...
- in the Cincinnati Zoo, was also outcrossed and sired at least two litters of orange cubs at Pretoria Zoo. Outcrossing is not necessarily done with the...
- Lykoi. Since the mother to one litter was a black domestic, extensive outcrossing with short-haired black domestic cats began. With time, it was determined...