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VENTNER

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• VENTNER (noun)
The noun VENTNER has 1 sense:

1. United States geneticist who published the complete base sequences for all the genes of a free-living organism, the influenza bacterium; later led team that developed a first draft of the entire human genome (born in 1946)

Familiarity information: VENTNER used as a noun is very rare.

• VENTNER (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

United States geneticist who published the complete base sequences for all the genes of a free-living organism, the influenza bacterium; later led team that developed a first draft of the entire human genome (born in 1946)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Craig Ventner; J. Craig Ventner; Ventner

Instance hypernyms:

geneticist (a biologist who specializes in genetics)

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