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 genome is about 20% smaller than the wild-type genome.
  — Quanta Magazine, 4 Nov. 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
• And genes only make up a small percentage of the genome.
  — Carl Zimmer New York Times, Star Tribune, 24 July 2021
• 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
• By looking at the genome, Johnson’s team was learning a lot about the Reading strain.
  — Bernice Yeung, ProPublica, 29 Dec. 2021
• 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
• The process of sequencing a single genome used to take days, Hinrichs said.
  — Melina Walling, The Arizona Republic, 9 Oct. 2021
• There will always be the risk of unwanted outcomes in mucking with the genome.
  — Robert Weisman, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Jan. 2023
• In 2010, Green helped produce the first draft sequence of a Neanderthal genome.
  — Fox News, 17 July 2021
• 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
• The effort to generate the first blueprint of the human genome cost $2.7 billion over 13 years.
  — Emily Mullin, Wired, 21 Oct. 2021
• Researchers compared the mammoth’s DNA to the genome of modern Asian elephants.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 July 2024
• Those who shared the most likenesses also shared important parts of their genome and DNA sequences.
  — David Faris, Newsweek, 18 Jan. 2025
• An in-depth genetic analysis of 2,000-year-old genomes has revealed that women were at the center of social networks in British Celtic communities during the Iron Age.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 15 Jan. 2025

Last Updated: 1 Mar 2025