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hnriot on Oct 29, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: The lactose-tolerance mutation

not if you want a reasonably distributed gene pool, diversity of genes is always a good idea

gadders on Oct 30, 2012 [–]

Well, yes. You don't want one bull to do 100% of cows, but one bull can easily do an entire herd, and using In Vitro methods the most valuable bulls fertilise thousands of cows.

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