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 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
• 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
• It can be used to alter the human genetic code and cure diseases.
  — Per Kristian Hong, STAT, 24 Apr. 2018
• 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
• Its letters are arranged in a sequence that spells out the genetic code.
  — Bradley J. Fikes, sandiegouniontribune.com, 18 Oct. 2017
• 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
• 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
• 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
• But genetic code for the H of one of the viruses had a deletion in it that reduced the effectiveness of vaccine.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 9 Dec. 2017
• These snippets of genetic code prompt your immune system to replicate—for example—part of a virus encoded by that mRNA and then learn how to fight it off.
  — Chris Baraniuk, WIRED, 3 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 11 Jan 2025