Sentence examples for cannot breed with from inspiring English sources

Engineered organisms that cannot breed with wild counterparts could prevent transgenic plants from spreading genes to unmodified crops and weeds, and battle pests.

Evolution is the transition from one species to another, as is described in this typical definition from a PBS website: "The evolutionary process of speciation is how one population of a species changes over time to the point where that population is distinct and can no longer interbreed with the 'parent' population". In short, a new species arises that cannot breed with the former species.

Morphology on its own may therefore not be a reliable guide to a species; thus the biological species concept describes a species as a group of individuals that can breed together but cannot breed with other groups, independent of morphological similarity.

Then even if the fish do escape, they cannot breed with wild salmon.

Parents cannot breed with themselves.

If the two modern species cannot breed with one another, then we can safely assume that at least one of the two would also have been infertile with the ancestral species.

However, legendary Pokémon, among certain other species, cannot breed.

In the meantime, Suomi's team can continue working with the animals it has, but it cannot breed new ones.

Single goats cannot breed.

This also helps keep the supply of popular breeds tight — if people cannot breed dogs in their backyard they cannot cut into breeders' profits.

But the flies cannot breed in simple, inexpensive pit latrines, Mr. Emerson said.