How to Use genetic code in a Sentence

genetic code

noun
  • 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
  • One of the central issues is that HIV is a shapeshifter: The virus’s genetic code mutates at the highest rate known to science.
    Annalisa Merelli and Jonathan Wosen, STAT, 17 May 2024
  • In the case of the CDC method, the test consisted of attempts to match a patient sample against three distinct pieces of the virus's genetic code.
    Peter Whoriskey, Neena Satija, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Mar. 2020
  • During a cool phase, a protein latches onto the genetic code of the virus and creates a short copy.
    Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 June 2021
  • Solving the genetic code won a Nobel Prize for Dr. Nirenberg, his lab chief, in 1968.
    Nicholas Wade, New York Times, 23 Feb. 2020
  • Dixon compares this new scheme to the genetic code, in which four chemical building blocks combine to form the genes in a strand of DNA.
    Katie McCormick, Quanta Magazine, 1 Aug. 2022
  • New variants emerge when mutations occur in the genetic code of the virus.
    Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 27 June 2021
  • Now, Cushman and his team want to build off the lines of genetic code that give desert plants their superpowers.
    Melina Walling, The Arizona Republic, 9 Nov. 2021
  • Viral variants are new versions of a virus that arise as a result of small changes in its genetic code.
    Sarah Toy, WSJ, 1 Jan. 2021
  • Once these spike proteins can unlock the cells, the infection spreads by replicating the genetic code of the virus.
    Manavi Kapur, Quartz, 23 June 2021
  • The only difference would be a few lines of genetic code that would ever so slightly change the shape of the spike protein.
    Deborah Fuller, Quartz, 3 Dec. 2021
  • Their number of limbs is immutable, set by their genetic code.
    Rasha Aridi, Science | AAAS, 10 Sep. 2020
  • When an RNA virus like the one that causes Covid-19 replicates inside a new host, mistakes can be made in its genetic code.
    Joanna Sugden, WSJ, 30 Jan. 2021
  • Sign up Cancer is caused by errors in genetic code within cells.
    Devika Rao, theweek, 20 June 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

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