if you repeatedly breed a dog to a single daughter, and she has several very large litters without any abnormal puppies, would you be confident that the dog does not carry any deleterious recessive alleles?
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This is because inbreeding increases the likelihood of homozygosity for any recessive alleles present in the gene pool. Show more…
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