How to Use genome in a Sentence

genome

noun
Definition of genomenext
  • Scientists used a bacterium to clone each piece of the genome, and then studied them in smaller groups.
    — Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics, 1 Apr. 2022
  • Deciphering a genome is a lot like putting together a puzzle.
    — Corryn Wetzel, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Apr. 2022
  • Technology at the time couldn’t resolve the last 8% — vast gaps spread across the genome that together add up to the equivalent of missing an entire chromosome.
    — Megan Molteni, STAT, 9 Apr. 2022
  • Moving forward, brain organoids will be crucial in investigating which changes to the human genome allowed our ancestors to develop today’s minds.
    — Zach Zorich, Discover Magazine, 3 Apr. 2022
  • To confirm this suspicion the virus was isolated from infected patient nasopharyngeal tissue, saliva, stool, and blood samples to clone the viral genome.
    — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 13 Apr. 2022
  • Additionally, researchers have seen quite a bit of overlap in the portions of the genome that impact facial morphology and those that influence brain morphology.
    — Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 1 Oct. 2024
  • Scientists finally finished decoding the entire human genome.
    — Laura Blasey, Los Angeles Times, 1 Apr. 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
  • 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 tech could be used to create an enduring record of human, animal, and plant genomes.
    — New Atlas, 19 Sep. 2024
  • The family trees are based on how similar or dissimilar the different species’ genomes are, and the lengths of the tree branches are dictated by how much genetic change there is from one species to another.
    — Kate Golembiewski, CNN, 4 Oct. 2024

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