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What is "gene pool"

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
gene pool
noun
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▪ A plague of uniformity is sweeping the world, numbing the taste buds and reducing the gene pool.
▪ Because the gene pool for a growing breed is slight, munchkins are generally bred with other cats.
▪ In the long term, the loss of genetic diversity will reduce the gene pool available for agricultural crops.
▪ People have to be executed, removed from the gene pool.
▪ The gene pool of the resulting subgroups would be too small to ensure the viability of the population.
▪ The genes themselves don't evolve, they merely survive or fail to survive in the gene pool.
▪ The net result was a widening gene pool and an altogether hardier national herd.
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gene pool

n. (context genetics English) The complete set of unique alleles that would be found by inspecting the genetic material of every living member of a species or population.

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Gene pool

The gene pool is the set of all genes, or genetic information, in any population, usually of a particular species.

Usage examples of "gene pool".

The dam needs repairing (no noun omitted here, folks), so the TVA is going to drain the Gene Pool, and after a few phone calls from Ye Editor, it was all settled.

Everybody wants the human gene pool cleaned up, but nobody wants its tragic aspects to take place in his own family.

But, no, I must have this unconscious wish to take myself out of the gene pool or something.

But once one team has started to dominate the gene pool of a species it thereby has an automatic advantage.

Plants have certain limits of growth, and breeding can only pro- duce a plant that is an expression of some gene already present in the total gene pool.

Paul might have followed the example of his close friend and rival European Intendant Associate, Davy MacGregor, who like many persons of superior genetic heritage had contributed sperm to the gene pool that would help popu­.

She stared at the wall behind which Aidan's genetic legacy had taken its place as part of the gene pool.

Metz had led the efort to have DNA from that species added to the neo-fin gene pool.

Metz had led the effort to have DNA from that species added to the neo-fin gene pool.