How to Use genome in a Sentence

genome

noun
  • At the time, not a single genome had been sequenced yet.
    — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 28 Nov. 2025
  • So the researchers debugged the genome by hand.
    — Jacek Krywko, Scientific American, 30 Apr. 2026
  • Even the process of reporting the genome turned out to be kind of odd.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 6 Nov. 2020
  • In fact, the first synthetic genome was built over two decades ago.
    — Big Think, 20 Oct. 2025
  • The brain is made up of a mosaic of cells that each have their own genome.
    — Jen Christensen, CNN Money, 30 Oct. 2025
  • The time required to decode a genome has plunged to days rather than years or months.
    — David A. Shaywitz, WSJ, 24 Feb. 2021
  • This is why most genome duplications get lost to time.
    — Ari Daniel, NPR, 19 May 2026
  • The human genome holds about three billion base pairs within each cell.
    — Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 10 Aug. 2025
  • And except for cancer, the genome is not a part of the practice of medicine.
    — J. Craig Venter, Scientific American, 11 Feb. 2021
  • Strings of them make up the genome as segments of various lengths called genes.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 2 Oct. 2025
  • But the dire wolf’s genome is still almost identical to that of the gray wolf.
    — Emily Mullin, Wired News, 7 Apr. 2025
  • In certain parts of the genome, the treatment reversed those changes.
    — Kelly Servick, Science | AAAS, 2 Dec. 2020
  • But the picture was only a rough sketch, based on just a couple pieces of the genome.
    — Jennifer Raff, Scientific American, 1 May 2021
  • 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
  • But getting genomes into cells is not trivial.
    — Eliza Strickland, IEEE Spectrum, 30 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • Finding out about the mutation in his genome gave him a fuller picture of his health.
    — Roxanne Khamsi, The Atlantic, 15 Feb. 2026
  • The waterdog has the largest genome of any four-footed beast on Earth.
    — Douglas Fox, Scientific American, 1 Feb. 2022
  • Those samples will also be used to create whole genome sequences for each of these species.
    — John Timmer, ArsTechnica, 25 June 2026
  • Most of the edited embryos also showed mosaicism, in which genomes vary from cell to cell.
    — Laura Dattaro, Scientific American, 10 June 2026
  • But that wasn’t the only relevant genome change that the researchers found.
    — Viviane Callier, Quanta Magazine, 30 May 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
  • Among agrarian humans, endosperm left its mark on our genomes.
    — Literary Hub, 25 Mar. 2026
  • Leonardo’s genome is an elusive target.
    — Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 7 Jan. 2026
  • That’s because the genome is no blueprint or algorithm.
    — Philip Ball, Quanta Magazine, 18 June 2026
  • My students will produce 400 genomes out of the same kind of sample.
    — Laura Poppick, Quanta Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
  • Venter led the effort to produce one of the first draft sequences of the human genome.
    — Francie Ebert, NBC news, 30 Apr. 2026
  • This was the first time the world had access to a piece of Neandertal genome.
    — Daniela Mocker, Scientific American, 4 Oct. 2022
  • There will always be the risk of unwanted outcomes in mucking with the genome.
    — Robert Weisman, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Jan. 2023

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