How to Use genome in a Sentence
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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 -
Using the genome to control species are already showing promise.
— Lindsey Botts, The Arizona Republic, 25 Apr. 2022 -
Adenovirus variants have popped up before, and this type of virus is especially apt at reshuffling its genome.
— Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 13 May 2022 -
In Williams-Beuren and other such syndromes, differences or deletions in one area in the genome cause many effects throughout the body.
— Jessica Riskin, The New York Review of Books, 21 Apr. 2022 -
Goodman said geneticists have found no evidence of substantial racial differences in the human genome.
— Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 13 May 2022 -
Investigators have tried to sequence the entire genome of an adenovirus from one of the patients, but have not yet been able to get a sample with enough of the virus to do that.
— Brenda Goodman, CNN, 6 May 2022 -
The competition essentially ended in a tie in 2000 when the public and private teams published their first drafts of the genome at the same moment.
— Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Apr. 2022 -
Conversely, the authors of polygenic scores claim that aggregates of tiny differences throughout the genome have specific effects on complex phenotypes.
— Jessica Riskin, The New York Review of Books, 21 Apr. 2022 -
But a genetics appointment in May, in which Eden underwent whole genome sequencing, finally offered answers.
— Angela Andaloro, Peoplemag, 25 Sep. 2024 -
Omicron viruses contain a minimum of 30 mutations in the Spike protein and another 23 elsewhere in the genome.
— William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 6 May 2022 -
The vaquita has existed for millennia at relatively low population sizes, Robinson said, which has led the species to have low levels of diversity across their genome.
— Doug Johnson, Ars Technica, 6 May 2022 -
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 -
In fact, HLAs are the most variable part of the human genome — which is by design.
— Kaitlin Sullivan, NBC News, 19 July 2023 -
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 -
Tishkoff says that even adding hundreds of additional genomes to the new pangenome isn’t enough.
— Byrodrigo Pérez Ortega, science.org, 10 May 2023 -
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
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