venter
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1. venter - Noun
2. Venter - Proper noun
Meaning
One who vents; one who utters, reports, or publishes.
The belly; the abdomen; -- sometimes applied to any large cavity containing viscera.
The uterus, or womb.
A belly, or protuberant part; a broad surface; as, the venter of a muscle; the venter, or anterior surface, of the scapula.
The lower part of the abdomen in insects.
A pregnant woman; a mother; as, A has a son B by one venter, and a daughter C by another venter; children by different venters.
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Begun as a Sargasso Sea pilot sampling project in August 2003, Venter announced the full Expedition on 4 March 2004.
In 2000, Venter and Francis Collins of the National Institutes of Health and U.S. Public Genome Project jointly made the announcement of the mapping of the human genome, a full three years ahead of the expected end of the Public Genome Program.
In 2010, the British magazine New Statesman listed Craig Venter at 14th in the list of "The World's 50 Most Influential Figures 2010". citation He is a member of the USA Science and Engineering Festival 's Advisory Board.
In popular culture Venter has been the subject of several biography books, several scientific documentary books, TV documentaries, numerous magazine articles, and many speeches.
In the episode, Venter is referenced as patenting an organism and encoding a message in the genome of that organism, an act repeated by the character of Aldous Leekie (played by Matt Frewer ).
It was the sequence of information in a single human's DNA (that of Dr Craig Venter) which was the primary initial object of the Human Genome Project.