How to Use gene pool in a Sentence

gene pool

noun
  • This might be a deer whose antlers are too small or too funky to keep in the gene pool.
    — Natalie Krebs, Outdoor Life, 22 Feb. 2021
  • As long as their gene pools do not mix, even a less-fit version can survive.
    — Veronique Greenwood, New York Times, 12 Sep. 2019
  • If so, their gene pool might just be a national treasure.
    — Laura Lane, PEOPLE, 1 May 2026
  • The process matched a still-undisclosed felon Christian's gene pool.
    — Cory Shaffer, cleveland.com, 11 Sep. 2017
  • But also with a gene pool that allowed for such an exception.
    — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 22 July 2024
  • Vogue What would happen if the autism gene was eliminated from the gene pool?
    — Ellen McGirt, Fortune, 20 Apr. 2018
  • To what extent was the gene pool shaped by intermarriage with non-Jews?
    — Shai Carmi and David Reich, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Dec. 2022
  • This is a fight that was worth fighting for any of us who have nasty little fighting fish swimming around in our gene pools.
    — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 16 Mar. 2018
  • Why did ancestries that persisted for so long vanish from the gene pool of people alive now?
    — Melinda A. Yang, The Conversation, 15 Sep. 2020
  • The rest give up their chance to contribute to the gene pool, caring for the offspring of others instead.
    — Quanta Magazine, 5 Nov. 2015
  • Brady the Lady Lab was the last pick of a litter of 13 pups from a top-notch gene pool.
    — cleveland, 27 May 2022
  • This leads to a smaller gene pool, which is shown to have unintended consequences.
    — Sarah Lapidus, The Arizona Republic, 26 May 2023
  • Meanwhile coyotes would breed with red wolves, creating hybrids that watered down the gene pool.
    — Robbie George, National Geographic, 29 June 2018
  • McLaren is a small enterprise, so its roadgoing gene pool is shallow.
    — John Pearley Huffman, Car and Driver, 29 Apr. 2020
  • This process helps the field team diversify the wild population’s gene pool.
    — Hayleigh Evans, The Arizona Republic, 31 May 2024
  • Some of us just dress better, or had a better education, or better luck in the gene pool of parents.
    — Steven Strogatz, The New Yorker, 5 Mar. 2018
  • The other trick is to expand the gene pool with some florist’s versions of cineraria, which are shorter, but bloom in a wider range of color.
    — Pam Peirce, San Francisco Chronicle, 30 Mar. 2018
  • In addition to their aesthetic appeal, prairies are a gene pool for plants and animals that may serve us.
    — Jim Gilbert, Star Tribune, 8 July 2021
  • The elusive wildcats face poaching, car accidents, and a dwindling gene pool.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 13 Feb. 2023
  • The zoo, with partners, decided to use the technique to expand the gene pool of cheetahs in human care.
    — Alissa Widman Neese, USA TODAY, 24 Feb. 2020
  • Wolves that could not tolerate the presence of humans didn’t become part of the ancestral dog gene pool.
    — John Hawks, WSJ, 25 Jan. 2019
  • Poppy might have learned his lesson after the first one, but absentmindedness is strong in our gene pool.
    — Maggie Shipstead, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 July 2021
  • Because the gene pool is so small, white tigers are only produced through inbreeding, which can lead to health problems for the tigers.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 7 July 2017
  • With these translocations, the gene pool of the animals is expanding.
    — Sophy Roberts, Condé Nast Traveler, 26 June 2019
  • In each generation, those eggs that can't survive the toxic water get removed from the gene pool.
    — Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 3 Feb. 2012
  • Growing up in a house from Liverpool, the Beatles were the best of my gene pool.
    — Jesse David Fox, Vulture, 4 Dec. 2024
  • Researchers believe other wolves have migrated to the park at times, helping refresh the gene pool.
    — John Flesher, Detroit Free Press, 25 Aug. 2022
  • Residues of the Barbary lion gene pool might still be found in captive environments.
    — Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Eight female cougars were eventually brought from Texas to help stabilize the gene pool.
    — Los Angeles Times, 21 Apr. 2022
  • Only about 200 live in the wild, a vanishingly narrow gene pool.
    — Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 3 Aug. 2023

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