genome

Noun

Meaning

the ordering of genes in a haploid set of chromosomes of a particular organism; the full DNA sequence of an organism

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The God of the Bible is also the God of the genome. He can be worshipped in the cathedral or in the laboratory. His creation is majestic, awesome, intricate, and beautiful. Francis Collins

The best estimates are that it takes a minimum of fifty thousand years for an adaptation to show up in the human genome. This is called evolutionary lag... Our hunter-gatherer ancestors had a very different lifestyle... Daniel Levitin

I think there are people who's lives have been saved because of the study of the genome. Francis Collins

The main purpose of most genes in the human genome is regulating the expression of other genes in the genome. Matt Ridley

The genome is littered, one might almost say clogged, with the equivalent of computer viruses, selfish, parasitic stretches of letters which exist for the pure and simple reason that they are good at getting themselves duplicated. We are full of digital chain letters and warnings about marmalade. Matt Ridley

I am tired of hearing that the DNA in my cells nucleus is the complete blueprint of what is, or could be, me. There is more to me than that. The sequence of my nuclear DNA is not "My Genome." Gottfried Schatz

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