In 1511, leaders in Mecca believed coffee stimulated radical thinking and outlawed the drink. In 1524, the leaders overturned that order, and people could drink coffee again.
GENOME
genome
(noun) the ordering of genes in a haploid set of chromosomes of a particular organism; the full DNA sequence of an organism; “the human genome contains approximately three billion chemical base pairs”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
genome (plural genomes)
(genetics) The complete genetic information (either DNA or, in some viruses, RNA) of an organism.
Source: Wiktionary
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RIGHT
(noun) anything in accord with principles of justice; “he feels he is in the right”; “the rightfulness of his claim”
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