GENOME
Dictionary entry overview: What does genome mean? • GENOME (noun)
The noun GENOME has 1 sense:
1. the ordering of genes in a haploid set of chromosomes of a particular organism; the full DNA sequence of an organism
Familiarity information: GENOME used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• GENOME (noun)
Meaning:
The ordering of genes in a haploid set of chromosomes of a particular organism; the full DNA sequence of an organism
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Context example:
the human genome contains approximately three billion chemical base pairs
Hypernyms ("genome" is a kind of...):
order; ordering; ordination (logical or comprehensible arrangement of separate elements)
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