How to Use gene in a Sentence

gene

noun
  • She inherited a good set of genes from her parents.
  • Our genes help decide who moves in.
    — New Atlas, 24 Sep. 2025
  • This means your genes are not your destiny.
    — Julie Scott, Verywell Health, 15 May 2026
  • Clark simply has the clutch gene.
    — Matt Reigle Outkick, FOXNews.com, 16 May 2026
  • There’s not one plant gene that controls the whole process.
    — Paul Cappiello, Louisville Courier Journal, 3 Oct. 2025
  • If a gene is turned off, your body won’t make proteins from it.
    — Ruth Jessen Hickman, Health, 15 Apr. 2026
  • For 22 of the genes, doing so killed the cells.
    — ArsTechnica, 30 Apr. 2026
  • There is much more to being a parent than genes.
    — Toria Sheffield, PEOPLE, 13 June 2026
  • Mutations in this gene can lead to red hair.
    — Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Athletes will be required to take a one-time gene test.
    — Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 26 Mar. 2026
  • Good genes and good luck certainly can give you a head start.
    — Dr. Howard Tucker, CNBC, 10 May 2026
  • Is the urge to build hard-wired into our genes or something?
    — Literary Hub, 17 Sep. 2025
  • One final gene was turned off to keep the pig from growing too large.
    — Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 11 Jan. 2022
  • There are smart genes in their families.
    — Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 25 Mar. 2026
  • So what’s the outlook like for the gene-editing theme at large?
    — Trefis Team, Forbes, 16 June 2022
  • Any mention of good genes is racist and proof of a Nazi revival.
    — Matt Fleming, Oc Register, 1 Aug. 2025
  • Making a protein from its gene is a two-stage affair.
    — Philip Ball, Quanta Magazine, 18 June 2026
  • It is caused by a mutation in the huntingtin gene.
    — William A. Haseltine, Forbes.com, 24 Jan. 2026
  • Every person has two copies of the gene, one from each parent.
    — Darcel Rockett, Chicago Tribune, 29 Oct. 2022
  • My desire to catch this fish felt primal, written in my genes.
    — Kim Cross, Travel + Leisure, 10 Mar. 2026
  • But there were other gene-editing tools also at the time.
    — Quanta Magazine, 11 June 2026
  • Genomics is the study of all of an animal’s genes.
    — Milly Dawson, The Orlando Sentinel, 3 Mar. 2026
  • That gene, called rplW, seems to be the critical holdup.
    — ArsTechnica, 30 Apr. 2026
  • This can happen due to mutations in the gene that codes for β-catenin.
    — Robert Burakoff, Verywell Health, 1 Nov. 2024
  • Research suggests that genes are a major cause of autism.
    — Joshua Anbar, CNN Money, 3 Nov. 2025
  • Maybe my dad partied the party genes out in the '80s.
    — Bryan Alexander, USA Today, 3 June 2026
  • That genes are passed on from parent to child through chromosomes.
    — Evan Bush, NBC news, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Strings of them make up the genome as segments of various lengths called genes.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 2 Oct. 2025
  • But his father’s wanderlust has been passed down to him, like a gene.
    — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2023
  • But what stunned the researchers was that this result seemed to hinge on a single gene.
    — Anna Funk, Scientific American, 31 Mar. 2022

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