How to Use genome in a Sentence

genome

noun
  • 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
  • Over the next two days, Zhang and a team in Shanghai worked day and night to map out a genome.
    — Grady McGregor, Fortune, 23 Dec. 2020
  • And the platypus’s genome is even more special than that.
    — Stephen C. George, Discover Magazine, 29 Aug. 2023
  • And except for cancer, the genome is not a part of the practice of medicine.
    — J. Craig Venter, Scientific American, 11 Feb. 2021
  • There are billions of these base pairs in the human genome.
    — Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics, 1 Apr. 2022
  • The time required to decode a genome has plunged to days rather than years or months.
    — David A. Shaywitz, WSJ, 24 Feb. 2021
  • But the dire wolf’s genome is still almost identical to that of the gray wolf.
    — Emily Mullin, Wired News, 7 Apr. 2025
  • But the picture was only a rough sketch, based on just a couple pieces of the genome.
    — Jennifer Raff, Scientific American, 1 May 2021
  • 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
  • And genes only make up a small percentage of the genome.
    — Carl Zimmer New York Times, Star Tribune, 24 July 2021
  • 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
  • What causes some ants to live twice as long as nest mates that have exactly the same genome?
    — Yao-Hua Law, Science | AAAS, 25 Mar. 2021
  • 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
  • Some are in the stretch of the genome with the instructions for the virus’ spike protein, which binds to human cells and enables the virus to infect them.
    — Andrew Joseph, STAT, 21 Dec. 2020
  • There will always be the risk of unwanted outcomes in mucking with the genome.
    — Robert Weisman, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Jan. 2023
  • That seems to have been the case with a study examining the genomes of tardigrades, and the original draft of the human genome.
    — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 25 Mar. 2021
  • How could researchers detect these small gene-environment interactions across hundreds of spots in the genome?
    — Arun Durvasula, The Conversation, 14 May 2025
  • The scientists also compared northern and southern white rhino genomes.
    — Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 15 May 2025

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