Example sentences for: inbreeding

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

  • Heterozygous loci are rare among fully inbred RI strains but they are fairly common among new BXH strains that were genotyped at the 10th to 16th generation of inbreeding.

  • Dog genome projects reveal that inbreeding for pedigree locks in bad recessive traits.

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

  • 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.

  • 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.


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