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Outbreeding helps in the maintenance of an organism's ability to survive and perpetuate its genetic material. This is termed as biological fitness.
(a) What is the term used to signify reduction of such biological fitness?
(b) Explain one method of outbreeding devised by plants that requires a chemical intervention by the reproductive apparatus of a plant.

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