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inbreeding

The interbreeding of closely related individuals occurring naturally (as in a closed population), or as a deliberately chosen system of breeding and serving especially to preserve and fix desirable characters of and to eliminate unfavorable characters from a suitably selected stock but tending to effect an unwanted decline (as in size, vigor, or fertility) through the fixation of undesirable and often recessive characters when the initial stock is any way defective.

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