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Question
Give a reason for the following:
The continuous inbreeding of crops may lead to reduced fertility and productivity. However, the self-pollinated crops do not show the ill-effects of inbreeding.
Solution
Because the weaker alleles become homozygous and exhibit their harmful effects. So, such plants die and get eliminated out of population. In this way, the population becomes free of such genes.
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