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Genetic theory is used in two basic commercial ways today: animal and plant breeding in agriculture and in the field of conservation biology. In the former, the basic strategy is to identify and eliminate undesirable, susceptible alleles by selective breeding. The susceptibility can be to a particular disease or perhaps it is manifested as a structural problem such as weak anchor roots in corn plants.
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Hannon, B., Ruth, M. (1994). Mating of Alleles. In: Dynamic Modeling. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-0224-7_11
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