production of a genetically uniform population
increases in the diversity within a population
increased change of homozygous recessive alleles occurring
reduction of a populations ability to adapt to environmental changesAll of the following are problems arising from inbreeding except?increases in the diversity within a population.
inbreeding would decrease the diversityAll of the following are problems arising from inbreeding except?It would be "increases in the diversity within a population."
When a population inbreeds, more closely related individuals with similar genes have a greater likelihood of passing on recessive traits. This is because they often have similar alleles. Not only would homozygous recessive alleles be passed on more often, but the gene pool would be made much smaller because of the sharing of similar genes between closely-related idividuals.
Diversity would be limited because the inbreeding population would not be mating with those more distantly related (one of the main ways of bringing diversity to a population).
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