Example sentences for: domesticated

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

  • A few have been domesticated for plantation work.

  • For approximately 10,000 years, human beings have modified the traits of plants and animals, giving rise to hundreds of thousands of domesticated breeds that today form the foundation of the world's food supply.

  • The only animal immediately recognisable to European eyes was the native dog or dingo , and the distinction was early made between the domesticated dog, or dingo , and the wild dog, or warrigal .

  • In some cases, transposable elements may have been domesticated by their host to serve clear functional roles [ 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 ] . Most human transposable elements are retrotransposons.

  • Cultivars (domesticated varieties) have been selected by humans in the last 10,000 years and inevitably represent a subset of the variation found in their wild ancestors.


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