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Name the methods employed in animal breeding. According to you which one of the methods is best? Why?

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(i) Various methods of animal breeding are : Inbreeding, out breeding, out crossing, cross breeding and interspecific hybridisation.
(ii) Out of various methods of animal breeding, the best breeding mthod is of out crossing because it not only increases the milk production and growth rate of beef cattle but also overcomes the problem of inbreeding depression noticed in the method of inbreeding.
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