Which Statement About Inbreeding Is Correct?

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Which Statement About Inbreeding Is Correct?

a. Inbreeding increases random mating. b. Inbreeding changes allele frequencies in a population. c. Offspring produced by inbreeding have high biological fitness. d. Inbreeding increases the rate of purifying selection.
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d. Inbreeding increases the rate of purifying selection. Because inbreeding tends to increase the production of homozygotes, it exposes lethal or deleterious recessive alleles that would be masked in a heterozygote. does no change allele frequencies in a population, only genotype
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