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8 / 25  When closely related individuals mate with each other, or inbreed, the offspring are often not as fit as the offspring of two unrelated individuals. Why?
A  Close relatives are genetically incompatible.
B  The DNA of close relatives reacts negatively in the offspring.
C  Inbreeding can bring together rare, deleterious mutations that lead to harmful phenotypes.
D  Inbreeding causes normally silent alleles to be expressed.

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Source:  OpenStax, Concepts of biology for slcc biol 1010. OpenStax CNX. Aug 13, 2013 Download for free at https://legacy.cnx.org/content/col11555/1.1
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