#c) not beneficial because it involves basically artificial selection
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LOOMING AND THE IMPACT ON THE LEVEL OF INBREEDING ON THE TIME LORD POPULATION, AN ESSAY
And how inbreeding is a big issue amongst the Time Lord population, due to their elitism and strict caste system.
#I want to make this post at some point#making this one to remind myself to#I'm doing genetics in biology at the moment!#not sure if looming would be#a) beneficial due to increasing gene pool/genetic drift through genetic modification#b) not beneficial due to an increase in parent individuals who are to some extent inbred#c) not beneficial because it involves basically artificial selection#which although gets you the preferred traits#also comes with more negative results like think pure bred dogs with all them issues#inbreeding would totally be a huge issue#like they've got a limited population (I don't think there can be *that* many time lords compared to like earth population#they're the 1% so likely gonna be one of the smallest castes#and then you have a lack of gene flow between castes because they don't interbreed#doctor who#gallifrey#dw#dw meta#time lords
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