How to Use genome in a Sentence
genome
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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 -
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 -
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 -
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 researchers are analyzing the genome to explore what its large size may mean for the shark’s longevity.
— Taylor Nicioli, CNN, 13 Dec. 2024 -
In the event that nothing germinates, DNA from the seeds has already been collected and the genome sequenced.
— Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 20 Nov. 2024
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