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Inbreeding is carried out in animal husbandry because it:
a. increases vigour

b. improves the breed

c. increases heterozygosity

d. increases homozygosity
Biology | CBSE | Class 12 | Exercise 1 | NCERT Exemplar | Strategies for Enhancement in Food Production
Inbreeding is carried out in animal husbandry because it:
a. increases vigour

b. improves the breed

c. increases heterozygosity

d. increases homozygosity

Solution: Mating genetically identical creatures are referred to as inbreeding. Interbreeding aids in the expression of advantageous recessive alleles for a trait. Interbreeding is carried out in order to attain the homozygous expression of these alleles.

So, the correct answer is (d).

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