inbreeding
12
6.9
- noun
- /ˈɪnˌbridɪŋ/
- Specialized
:
endogamia
- You can't tell me that there's no inbreeding amongst you royals.
- inbreeding depression
- inbreeding coefficient
- inbreeding effects
So they're all like deformed because of inbreeding.
- So they're all like deformed because of inbreeding.
- The the last man has died of, of inbreeding.
- I want to be that old pervert that's sitting up on the hill that's, you know, it's got three eyes and too much inbreeding.
- They do the, the, the women involved in those do go off and sleep with people that they're not related to so that the gene pool doesn't get, you know, screwed up from inbreeding.
Examples
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The effects of inbreeding can lead to serious health problems in animals due to reduced genetic diversity.
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All of our oracles are deliberate products of inbreeding.
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Inbreeding, yes, but inbreeding is absolutely necessary.
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What are we doing, some sort of inbreeding program?
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My friend is a product of inbreeding.
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The unfortunate result of... inbreeding.
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He found some evidence of inbreeding.
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Which genes or functional classes of genes are responsible for the decrease in fitness associated with inbreeding?
Academic text (2010) -
They were very high-strung because of inbreeding to keep the white strain.
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Our ultimate goal is to devise means for minimizing and reversing the detrimental effects of inbreeding depression.
Academic text (2010)
Antonyms
- Specialized
1
6.8
Mating animals or plants that are not closely related to make their genes more different
How Related
- Specialized
12
6.9
- Specialized
2
4.4
- Specialized
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Inbreeding comes from the parts in- 'within' and breed 'to produce young animals', so it literally means breeding 'within' a small group. That's why inbreeding means mating between close relatives, which can reduce the variety of genes in a group and cause health problems.