Example sentences for: domestication

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

  • Pääbo's analysis suggests that the alleles typical of contemporary maize were already present in Mexican maize 4,400 years ago, so just a couple of thousand years after its initial domestication from the wild grass teosinte (Figure 3).

  • In crosses between wild and cultivated species of inbreeding plants, alleles that were “left behind” during the domestication process may be reintroduced into the cultivated gene pool.

  • Meanwhile, if you believe in the domestication of animals as "pets," that's a personal choice.

  • “One can actually look at specific genes that early humans selected during domestication of an important crop.”

  • Because of human selection, cultivars may exemplify a range of exaggerated phenotypic attributes that give them the appearance of being, on the whole, more diverse than some of the wild populations from which they were derived, but in truth, domestication usually represents a kind of genetic bottleneck.


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