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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 in biology (biology 1060 tri-c). OpenStax CNX. Jan 15, 2014 Download for free at https://legacy.cnx.org/content/col11617/1.1
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