Example sentences for: inbreeding

How can you use “inbreeding” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Due to extensive inbreeding, all AKXD28 mice are genetically identical except for the sex chromosome difference between males and females.

  • A six- to eight-fold expansion should be attainable, particularly if recombinations are tracked before and during the inbreeding process (Figure 4).

  • A second well justified objection to using RI strains to map quantitative traits is that fully inbred strains may not provide representative phenotypes precisely because they are inbred and subject to often severe inbreeding depression.

  • They have genes that allow them to mate with everyone except those belonging to the same “mating type” (this is presumably to avoid inbreeding and to produce offspring that are genetically diverse to cope with environmental change or biological enemies).

  • The congenital colorblindness of Pingelap is a direct result of the place's isolation and its vulnerability to natural cataclysm--it was a storm that decimated the island's population and enforced inbreeding, causing a recessive gene to flourish.


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