linked genes

How To Use linked genes In A Sentence

• So imprinting of X-linked genes naturally results in sexually dimorphic gene expression.
• The scientists discovered that two Waardenburg-linked genes matched mustard plant genes for sensing gravity.
• Unlinked genes may also be associated if biological processes, such as population differentiation, population admixture, and natural selection, occur in a population.
• Furthermore, there is often a degree of functional divergence between the X- and Y-linked genes.
• There may be a simple network of genes that regulate this one early decision to form a pygostyle from a tail, but there have been tens of millions of years of adaptation by other genes to the modern condition; we're dealing with a large network of interlinked genes here, and unraveling one step in development doesn't mean that subsequent steps are still competent to respond in the ancient pattern. Pharyngula
• To aid in the interpretation of mutant phenotypes, we subjected several of the various stl mutant chromosomes to recombination to remove unrelated extraneous mutations in linked genes.