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Differentiate between outbreeding and outcrossing.
Solution
| Outbreeding | Outcrossing |
| It is the mating of unrelated or distantly related individuals of a species. |
It is the mating between those animals that are of the same breed, but do not share common ancestry since 4 to 5 generations.
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