How to Use genome in a Sentence

genome

noun
  • From this, the 3D structure of the genome can be mapped.
    Michael Irving, New Atlas, 11 July 2024
  • The researchers were able to get 27 genome sequences from 25 of the samples.
    Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 23 Feb. 2023
  • And yet the human genome project was just the beginning.
    The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 9 Aug. 2023
  • And the platypus’s genome is even more special than that.
    Stephen C. George, Discover Magazine, 29 Aug. 2023
  • There are billions of these base pairs in the human genome.
    Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics, 1 Apr. 2022
  • In fact, HLAs are the most variable part of the human genome — which is by design.
    Kaitlin Sullivan, NBC News, 19 July 2023
  • The waterdog has the largest genome of any four-footed beast on Earth.
    Douglas Fox, Scientific American, 1 Feb. 2022
  • This was the first time the world had access to a piece of Neandertal genome.
    Daniela Mocker, Scientific American, 4 Oct. 2022
  • This was not an easy task; the mammoth's genome has more than 4 billion base pairs of DNA.
    Justin Klawans, theweek, 15 July 2024
  • Paabo’s team published the first draft of a Neanderthal genome in 2009.
    David Keyton, Time, 3 Oct. 2022
  • The human genome has evolved just 1 percent over the past eight million years.
    Boyce Upholt, The New Republic, 19 Sep. 2022
  • That means about 1% of the virus's genome is different from its starting point.
    Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Staff and Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 11 Mar. 2023
  • But that wasn’t the only relevant genome change that the researchers found.
    Viviane Callier, Quanta Magazine, 30 May 2023
  • But so too will constructing the genomes of novel pathogens.
    IEEE Spectrum, 17 Feb. 2024
  • It's been there so long that the human genome has evolved to cope with the parasites, in the form of sickle cell disease.
    Abc News, ABC News, 10 Aug. 2022
  • There will always be the risk of unwanted outcomes in mucking with the genome.
    Robert Weisman, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Jan. 2023
  • After all, genomics is the study of all of an organism’s DNA: its genome.
    Eric D. Green, Scientific American, 31 Mar. 2022
  • Tishkoff says that even adding hundreds of additional genomes to the new pangenome isn’t enough.
    Byrodrigo Pérez Ortega, science.org, 10 May 2023
  • There are thousands of genes that are known to produce venom and each snake’s whole genome has tens of thousands of genes.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 19 Sep. 2024
  • Since 1999, researchers have tried to sequence the genome of the Tasmanian tiger.
    Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 22 Aug. 2022
  • For context, the human genome is made of about 3 billion base pairs, and the mammoth genome has more than 4 billion.
    Lizette Ortega, Washington Post, 11 July 2024
  • Researchers compared the mammoth’s DNA to the genome of modern Asian elephants.
    Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 July 2024
  • Sinclair therefore focused on another part of the genome, called the epigenome.
    Alice Park, Time, 12 Jan. 2023
  • Pääbo sequenced the genome of the bones of a Neanderthal, the ancestor of modern-day humans.
    Bymary Kekatos, ABC News, 5 Oct. 2022
  • The team plans to first design a genome for the tiger and compare it to the dunnart, its closest living relative.
    Phillip Nieto, Fox News, 18 Aug. 2022
  • The other quarter of this man’s genome appears to be Japanese.
    Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 13 Feb. 2023
  • Making proteins was thought to be the genome’s primary job.
    Philip Ball, Scientific American, 14 May 2024
  • It was published in 1999, less than a year before scientists released the first draft of the human genome.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Nov. 2022
  • Kazansky’s team used ultra-fast lasers to inscribe the human genome data into voids as small as 20 nanometers (a nanometer is about one-billionth of a meter).
    Rosa Rahimi, CNN, 20 Sep. 2024
  • Kazansky and his team transcribed the human genome using ultra-fast lasers that encoded the data into tiny voids in silica as small as 20 nanometers.
    Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Sep. 2024

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