Virulence is due to its potent exotoxin, which destroys the underlying tissue and results in heart, liver, and kidney damage, as well as to suffocation following formation of a tough fibrous membrane in the respiratory tract

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Nonrandom Mating Nonrandom mating affects the way in which alleles combine to form genotypes and alters the genotypic frequencies of a population.

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Positive assortative mating

Individuals' mate with others who are like themselves phenotypically for selected traits. The net effect of positive assortative mating is a progressive increase in the number of  homozygous genotypes (AA and aa)

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Inbreeding

Preferential mating between related individuals. Inbreeding is more likely to take place in nature when population size becomes very small, and the number of mates is limited.

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