Answer:
(i) A breed is a group of animals similar in most of general characters (like appearance, morphological features, size, configuration, etc) and related by descent.
(ii) Main objectives of animal breeding are:
(a) To develop pure lines of cattle by inbreeding.
(b) To tide over the problem of inbreeding depression by out-crossing.
(c) To combine the good qualities of two different breeds by cross-breeding.
(d) To combine the desirable characters of two different species by inter-specific hybridization so that highly economically useful hybrids are produced.
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