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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Word of the Day

4 April 2025

GUILLOTINE

(verb) kill by cutting the head off with a guillotine; “The French guillotined many Vietnamese while they occupied the country”


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Coffee Trivia

The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.

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