outbreeding
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6.8
- noun
- /ˈaʊtˌbriːdɪŋ/
- Specialized
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cruzamiento
- Farmers practice outbreeding to reduce the risk of genetic disorders in livestock.
There's extreme inbreeding and there's extreme outbreeding, right?
- There's extreme inbreeding and there's extreme outbreeding, right?
Examples
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Third, well yes, inbreeding probably does increase virility compared with outbreeding; I'd forgotten that.
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The hypothesis put forward was that there was little outbreeding and that effective population size.
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There's extreme inbreeding and there's extreme outbreeding, right?
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Second outbreeding probably produces more robust physical specimens—heterozygote advantage and all.
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Mixing animals from such distinct populations could lead to the loss of unique traits that fit each subspecies to its home environment, a phenomenon known as outbreeding depression.
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Since Darwin's time, inbreeding depression has been documented in essentially all well-studied populations of outbreeding plants and animals.
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MRM/#1029: I guess you haven't ever seen Idiocracy, since you seem to think that "outbreeding" rationalists is some sort of extreme virtue to be inordinately proud of.
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Your population can be fishbelly white, but if you inbreed judiciously (what Bateson calls optimal outbreeding), you're going to have birth rates through the roof, and that has to be in part due to virility.
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However, others have emphasized the potential negative impact of increased genetic variation, calling it a "double-edged sword" (Rogers and Montalvo 2004) and citing as concerns the inclusion of unadapted germplasm and the potential for outbreeding depression.
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The conservation program aims to encourage outbreeding among endangered species to enhance their survival chances.
Synonyms
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6.2
Animals or plants from different groups produce mixed young
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Mixing different kinds of animals or plants to make young with chosen traits
Breeding animals or plants from different groups to increase gene variety
A process in which different breeds or groups mate to make hybrid young
Mixing different breeds to make animals or plants with mixed traits
Antonyms
- Specialized
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6.9
Mating of very close family members that makes genes less varied and can cause health problems
How Related
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Outbreeding comes from out- 'outside' and breed 'to have young'. It is the practice of mating animals or plants that are not close family so they have more variety and fewer inherited problems.