How to Use gene pool in a Sentence
gene pool
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This might be a deer whose antlers are too small or too funky to keep in the gene pool.
—Natalie Krebs, Outdoor Life, 22 Feb. 2021
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Brady the Lady Lab was the last pick of a litter of 13 pups from a top-notch gene pool.
—cleveland, 27 May 2022
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The process matched a still-undisclosed felon Christian's gene pool.
—Cory Shaffer, cleveland.com, 11 Sep. 2017
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As long as their gene pools do not mix, even a less-fit version can survive.
—Veronique Greenwood, New York Times, 12 Sep. 2019
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Vogue What would happen if the autism gene was eliminated from the gene pool?
—Ellen McGirt, Fortune, 20 Apr. 2018
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The rest give up their chance to contribute to the gene pool, caring for the offspring of others instead.
—Quanta Magazine, 5 Nov. 2015
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To what extent was the gene pool shaped by intermarriage with non-Jews?
—Shai Carmi and David Reich, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Dec. 2022
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The other trick is to expand the gene pool with some florist’s versions of cineraria, which are shorter, but bloom in a wider range of color.
—Pam Peirce, San Francisco Chronicle, 30 Mar. 2018
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If so, their gene pool might just be a national treasure.
—Laura Lane, Peoplemag, 19 Dec. 2022
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The zoo, with partners, decided to use the technique to expand the gene pool of cheetahs in human care.
—Alissa Widman Neese, USA TODAY, 24 Feb. 2020
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The next great quarterback hopeful out of the Manning gene pool comes with all the tools and bloodlines any recruit could want.
—Chuck Carlton, Dallas News, 7 Mar. 2023
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This is a fight that was worth fighting for any of us who have nasty little fighting fish swimming around in our gene pools.
—Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 16 Mar. 2018
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With equal parts awe and dread, Barb contacted the Mayo Clinic, which tested both families — two strains of the same gene pool.
—Robert Kolker, New York Times, 20 July 2023
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Because the gene pool is so small, white tigers are only produced through inbreeding, which can lead to health problems for the tigers.
—Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 7 July 2017
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Which is to say there’s something in the water—or cosmos or, at the very least, the gene pool—this time of year that gives way to legendary strands on its male progeny.
—Mackenzie Wagoner, Vogue, 26 Dec. 2017
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In fact the reality of who these East Asians are in the Bengali ancestral gene pool is clear in the supplements.
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 5 July 2013
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Only about 200 live in the wild, a vanishingly narrow gene pool.
—Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 3 Aug. 2023
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Wolves that could not tolerate the presence of humans didn’t become part of the ancestral dog gene pool.
—John Hawks, WSJ, 25 Jan. 2019
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Why did ancestries that persisted for so long vanish from the gene pool of people alive now?
—Melinda A. Yang, The Conversation, 15 Sep. 2020
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With these translocations, the gene pool of the animals is expanding.
—Sophy Roberts, Condé Nast Traveler, 26 June 2019
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Some of us just dress better, or had a better education, or better luck in the gene pool of parents.
—Steven Strogatz, The New Yorker, 5 Mar. 2018
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Any half-cow, half-bison calves could also affect the overall gene pool of the Polish bison, which are endangered in the area.
—Kelli Bender, PEOPLE.com, 26 Jan. 2018
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In each generation, those eggs that can't survive the toxic water get removed from the gene pool.
—Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 3 Feb. 2012
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The nostalgia factor gives the movie an initial jolt, and there are, of course, some dino-sized thrills, but not enough to lift this XL-sized mediocrity out of the gene pool's shallow end.
—Brian Lowry, CNN, 8 June 2022
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Researchers believe other wolves have migrated to the park at times, helping refresh the gene pool.
—John Flesher, Detroit Free Press, 25 Aug. 2022
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Over the years, a consortium of wolf conservation centers, zoos and the Fish and Wildlife Service have worked to expand the gene pool, using a tool called the studbook.
—Debra Utacia Krol, azcentral, 30 Dec. 2019
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This leads to a smaller gene pool, which is shown to have unintended consequences.
—Sarah Lapidus, The Arizona Republic, 26 May 2023
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In addition to their aesthetic appeal, prairies are a gene pool for plants and animals that may serve us.
—Jim Gilbert, Star Tribune, 8 July 2021
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Animal rights activists argue that breeding dogs and adding breeds can lead to puppy mills and reduce pet adoptions, while worsening canine health due to a shallow gene pool.
—Ben Brasch, Washington Post, 3 Jan. 2024
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Evolution could hardly favor a behavior that removed its carrier from the gene pool.
—Quanta Magazine, 6 Mar. 2024
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