Inbreeding: Quick Facts

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(Left) Absence of inbreeding: horizontal lines connect mates, vertical lines connect parents with their child; (right) an inbreeding loop: horizontal bar at top of loop connects brother and sister, all other lines and bars as above

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Topics

Backcross self-fertilization linebreeding grading himene interbreeding outbreeding population genetics Breeding artificial insemination natural selection gene pool genetic drift gene flow deme founder principle effective population size Animal breeding Plant breeding

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Key People

Sewall Wright, 1965

Sewall Wright

American geneticist