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Breeding populations

Posted: 16 March 2001

Groups of individual plants or animals that tend to reproduce among themselves and much less frequently with individuals from other members of the same species. As important sources of migrants and their genetic variability, these separated sub-populations can prove critical to the survival of a species as a whole.

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