HBHHBAwhen children, animals, or plants are produced from closely related members of the same family 近親交配;近親繁殖
He was born with a rare bone disease, probably the result of aristocratic inbreeding.
他天生就有罕見的骨病,可能是貴族近親結婚的結果。
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inbreeding• They can not be sexed when small, but it would be better to obtain an unrelatedfemale to avoidinbreeding.• In other species, there are behavioural drives the function of which is to avoid inbreeding.• However, it is worthemphasizing here that at least four costs have been proposed for inbreeding, and at least seven for outbreeding.• The breeding plan for this species is designed to minimise inbreeding.• In a study of 102 scimitar-horned oryx juvenilesurvivalrates were shown to be inversely related to the degree of inbreeding.• Moreover, the isolation of the men of the wetlands led to inbreeding.