How to Use genome in a Sentence

genome

noun
Definition of genomenext
Synonyms for genomenext
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Sinclair therefore focused on another part of the genome, called the epigenome.
    — Alice Park, Time, 12 Jan. 2023
  • The other quarter of this man’s genome appears to be Japanese.
    — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 13 Feb. 2023
  • It was published in 1999, less than a year before scientists released the first draft of the human genome.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Nov. 2022
  • Today, sequencing a genome requires less than $1,000 and a day.
    — Wayne C. Koff, STAT, 6 Oct. 2023
  • The first human reference genome draft was released more than 20 years ago.
    — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 May 2023
  • This process can be repeated on a massive scale throughout a genome.
    — Jake Buehler, Quanta Magazine, 30 Mar. 2023
  • The genomes show that some mammals like bears evolved to be better at hibernating.
    — Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 27 Apr. 2023
  • Yeast already has a system like this, with a set of genes copied by a dedicated enzyme that doesn’t replicate the rest of the genome.
    — Diana Gitig, Ars Technica, 5 Feb. 2024
  • Now scientists could make more edits to the genome in one go and do so more accurately to boot.
    — Shi En Kim, Scientific American, 11 Oct. 2023
  • The researchers then compared the genome extracted from the ancient DNA to the genomes of other people from around the world — both modern and ancient.
    — Katie Hunt, CNN, 20 Dec. 2022
  • Such is the familiar nature of genome sequencing to many of us today.
    — WIRED, 21 Sep. 2023
  • As with other studies, the mutations weren’t found inside genes—but rather in the parts of the genome that decide when, where and how much a gene is expressed.
    — Freda Kreier, Scientific American, 8 Dec. 2022
  • Baric tested the vaccine against dozens of the coronavirus genomes that Shi Zhengli had harvested and sent to his lab.
    — Dan Werb, Time, 11 July 2023
  • That task, however, is proving to be much harder than decoding the sequence of the genome.
    — Philip Ball, Quanta Magazine, 14 Feb. 2024
  • When the first roughly complete draft sequence of the human genome was announced in 2003, it was widely hailed as the foundation of a new era in medicine.
    — Joanna Thompson, Quanta Magazine, 26 Jan. 2023
  • But in San Diego there’s a specific mix also at play: phones, drones, genomes — and child care, Enemark said.
    — Roxana Popescu, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Mar. 2024
  • The other is a process called reassortment, which is when two or more viruses switch up whole sections of their genomes.
    — Melody Schreiber, The New Republic, 21 Feb. 2023
  • But looking that closely at the entire genome is untenable: There would be far too much data to sift through.
    — WIRED, 14 Feb. 2023
  • Sequencing the human genome for the first time was an incredible feat.
    — Anne Wojcicki, Fortune, 25 Apr. 2023
  • Two decades ago, the Human Genome Project completed their mission—sequence the first full human genome.
    — Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 11 May 2023
  • If the signal comes from inside the cell — if the reason for death is damage to the genome, for instance — then the process starts with the mitochondria turning against their host cell.
    — Quanta Magazine, 6 Mar. 2024

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