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Continuous breeding leads to inbreeding depressioin. If so define the following
(i) Outcrossing (ii) Crossbreeding.

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(i) Outcrossing involves interbreedingof animals of the same breed but of different ancestries and is employed to overcome inbreeding depression.
(ii) Cross breeding involves interbreeding of animals of different breeds to produce hybrid animals.
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