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genome

UK/ˈd͡ʒiː.nəʊm/US/ˈd͡ʒiː.noʊm/
nounC1Occasional — familiar, but not everyday · #10,525 of 15,258mostly written

Other forms: genomes

A genome is the complete set of genes in a living thing. The human genome, sequence the genome, genome editing.

The first human one took thirteen years and billions of dollars, and the same job now takes a day and a few hundred, which is one of the fastest collapses in cost of any technology. Most of it does not code for proteins at all.

Definitions of genome

  1. 1noungenomeThe complete set of genes in a living thing.C1

    “Scientists have mapped the genome of wheat to help breed stronger crops.”

genome is a set of genes.

Where it comes from

German Genom, coined in 1920 from gene plus chromosome.

  1. German

    Genom

  2. English, today

    genome

From earlier genom, from German Genom, coined by Hans Winkler in 1920 as a Gen and Chromosom. by surface analysis, gen(e) + gene + ome, or a gen(e) and (chromos)ome. Spelling altered to reflect the surface analysis.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

genome in the wild

  • In the fields of molecular biology and genetics, a genome is all the genetic information of an organism.

    Genome

  • The Human Genome Project was started in October 1990, and the first draft sequences of the human genome were reported in April 2003.

    Genome

  • Human genomes include both genes and various other types of functional DNA elements.

    Human genome

  • Introns make up a large percentage of the human genome.

    Human genome

  • Each pathway map contains a network of molecular interactions and reactions and is designed to link genes in the genome to gene products (mostly proteins) in the pathway.

    KEGG

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

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the Genom family

genome

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