a group of 29 cats from a large random mating population on an island. Their des

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a group of 29 cats from a large random mating population on an island. Their descendants still continued to live on this island for 20 generations with the population size constantly at 29 what is the average inbreeding coefficient in the population after the 20 generations? a group of 29 cats from a large random mating population on an island. Their descendants still continued to live on this island for 20 generations with the population size constantly at 29 what is the average inbreeding coefficient in the population after the 20 generations?

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Smaller populations tend to have proportionally more animals with higher inbreeding coefficients than larger populations - simply because there are fewer candidate animals to select from.

Animal mated to its own parent, then the inbreeding coefficient would be 25%.

Half-sib matings, then the inbreeding coefficient would be 12.5%

Full sib matings, then the inbreeding coefficient would be 25%

Animal has a single common great grand parent, then the inbreeding coefficient would be 3.1%

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