Sample Sentences for
gene
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(editor-reviewed)

gene as in:  the gene impacts eye color

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    The two men agreed to found a commercial company to exploit Boyer's gene-splicing techniques.  (source)
    gene = a DNA sequence or unit of heredity that influences biological traits
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    But Willie has enough of Kay's social gene in him to get the job done.  (source)
    gene = single segments of DNA which when combined determine inherited traits
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    "A change in gene," Charles Wallace quoted, "resulting in the appearance in the offspring of a character which is not present in the parents but which is potentially transmissible to its offspring."  (source)
    gene = a segment of DNA that can influence biological traits
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    Shawn's undergoing this painful and expensive procedure is the reason my parents would take me to an orthodontist to correct the same defect, which was genetic.  (source)
    genetic = inherited
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    It can be argued that youthful derring-do is in fact evolutionarily adaptive, a behavior encoded in our genes.  (source)
    genes = inherited biology responsible for inherited traits
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    Certain gene traces in her facial structure were noted in the new way by his onflowing mind, the clues added to other data, and a final-summation answer put forward.  (source)
    gene = single segments of DNA which when combined determine inherited traits
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    She thinks about genetics and blood and veins and why a heart keeps beating.†  (source)
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    She's a geneticist, and a brilliant one.†  (source)
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    The geneticists warned us of damage to future generations.†  (source)
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    I suppose the genetic scientists are still hard at work trying to work the kinks out.†  (source)
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    You have the same genes, the same parents, how can...  (source)
    genes = segments of DNA that determine inherited traits
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    Standing before a crowd of hundreds, seven-year-old Savannah demonstrated that the fearless gene ran strong in her when she gave her father one final gift.  (source)
    gene = single segments of DNA which when combined determine inherited traits
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    People are so wildly different, and it's hard to know when genetics or environment or just bad luck is decisive.†  (source)
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meaning too common or too rare to warrant focus

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    As a young man Gene had been a good athlete and a brilliant student.  (source)
    Gene = a person's name
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    Moving down the row of books, I stumbled upon Men in Green Faces by former SEAL Gene Wentz.  (source)
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    It was the era of Gene Autry and Roy Rogers.  (source)
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    He sold his first duck calls to Gene Lutz of Gene's Sporting Goods Store in Monroe.  (source)
    Gene = a person's name
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    MY FATHER, GENE, WAS one of those young men who somehow manage to seem both solemn and mischievous.  (source)
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    But we're all right, Gene and I are perfectly all right.  (source)
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    I'm Gene Smith, Assistant Chief of the Little Rock Police Department.  (source)
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    Gene Kahn sat on the board that set the new standards.  (source)
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    Gene Kelly had his appendix removed in Paris and was recuperating in Switzerland.  (source)
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    Gene Lutz weighed nearly three hundred pounds and needed every square inch.  (source)
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    His heart was doing a Gene Krupa drumroll.  (source)
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    Back in Gene's day, they were strapping themselves to rocket sleds and lighting the fuse with a cigar.  (source)
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    "So, you're going to memorize a poem," Mr. Stessman continued, pausing a moment to smile down at Park like Gene Wilder in the chocolate factory.  (source)
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