How to Use genetic code in a Sentence

genetic code

noun

• It can be used to alter the human genetic code and cure diseases.
  — Per Kristian Hong, STAT, 24 Apr. 2018
• Humans share much of their genetic code with other animals, from fruit flies and worms to dogs and apes.
  — NBC News, 7 Mar. 2018
• Scientists had been studying the genetic codes of bacteria for years.
  — Tom Avril, Philly.com, 12 Apr. 2018
• The bigger the genetic code, the more can go wrong, and much of what the genome contains, Salzberg said, is unnecessary.
  — Scott Wilson, Washington Post, 7 Feb. 2018
• For the first time, scientists are mapping the coast redwood’s genome, a genetic code 12 times larger than that of a human being.
  — Dino Grandoni, Washington Post, 8 Feb. 2018
• Researchers hope that the complex genetic code contained inside the towering timbers could also hold the key to their preservation.
  — James Hohmann, Washington Post, 8 Feb. 2018
• Even if all existing smallpox viruses were destroyed, its genetic code is known and the virus could be made from scratch, using genetic parts ordered over the internet.
  — Helen Branswell, STAT, 30 Apr. 2018
• After studying the genetic codes of algae that did well in warm waters, his team began injecting those types of algae into the tiny and tentacle-encircled mouths of polyps.
  — The Economist, 15 Mar. 2018
• Bhattacharya and others analyzed more than 2.7 million variations in Ata’s genetic code to try to find what might have caused her unusual stature.
  — Scott Berson, sacbee, 22 Mar. 2018
• Fully mapping the genetic code is too pricey now for a million people, but that more comprehensive approach eventually will be used with some participants, too.
  — Washington Post, 1 May 2018
• In lysogenic infections, phages invade bacterial cells but then sneak their genetic code into that of the bacterium’s, sometimes disrupting genes.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 1 Feb. 2018
• The genetic code is the system that translates DNA sequences into the amino acids of proteins; changes in this code would alter every protein in a person's body, killing them.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 15 Mar. 2018
• That is, there are changes in their genetic code over time.
  — Niema Moshiri, The Conversation, 6 Apr. 2020
• That drug, called mRNA-1273, uses a piece of genetic code to defend the body against the virus.
  — Anne Saker, The Enquirer, 24 Sep. 2020
• Some experts are quick to note that not all changes to the virus’s genetic code are cause for alarm.
  — Amina Khan Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 21 Dec. 2020
• Around the same time, another N.I.H. team helped to break the genetic code.
  — Beverly Gage, The New Yorker, 23 Jan. 2023
• Their genetic code leads younger kids to explore the world around them and learn how to behave.
  — Rebecca Renner, National Geographic, 21 Oct. 2020
• Did something in the genetic code cause her son to suffer like this?
  — Meg Kissinger, jsonline.com, 31 Aug. 2021
• The latter, for which results can take a day or more to come back from a lab, detect pieces of the virus’s genetic code.
  — Tara Santora, Scientific American, 12 Oct. 2021
• Instead, the test may be picking up fragments of the virus's genetic code.
  — NBC News, 14 Aug. 2020
• The researchers scanned the genetic code of those 40 bunnies to look for a section of the code that was unique to hand-standing bunnies.
  — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Mar. 2021
• The Human Genome Project didn’t reveal the first draft of our genetic code until 2003.
  — Emily Mullin, Wired, 21 Oct. 2021
• This might have something to do with the size of shark genetic code, which is one-and-a-half times larger than human DNA.
  — Jill Kiedaisch, Popular Mechanics, 22 Feb. 2019
• In all the frenetic viral cloning, there can be small errors in the copies of genetic code.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 28 May 2020
• The army belongs to you now, and by the way, this planet-scorching space force sprouted from the genetic code of a guy who just tried to kill your friend.
  — Darren Franich, EW.com, 20 Nov. 2019
• The beginning and end of its genetic code were present, but the middle was missing.
  — James Gorman, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2019
• In the case of food, that threat is protein your genetic code doesn’t recognize.
  — Abby Langer, Men's Health, 29 Apr. 2022
• Each of these mutations and deletions refers to a single change in the virus' genetic code.
  — Grace Wade, Health.com, 7 Jan. 2022
• Kind of a scary thing to me, to think about what this world is going to be like if all of our genetic codes are in a computer database.
  — CBS News, 4 Sep. 2024
• Scientists had developed a bespoke treatment for her, a snippet of genetic code targeting the gene at the heart of those symptoms.
  — Jonathan Wosen, STAT, 9 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 12 Dec 2024