The word 'genome' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to the complete set of genes or genetic material present in a particular organism or species. For example, "The human genome contains approximately 20,000 genes."
Celera Genomics, of Rockville, Maryland, has already sequenced a draft mouse genome, but it is available only to customers paying some $15,000 per year.The mouse genome is useful because of its similarity to the human genome.
And lately the manipulation of DNA has been driving the fascinating, if controversial, business of genetically modifying the animals and plants on our farms; even changes to human DNA are now up for discussion as the recent debates around mitochondrial transfer and genome editing have shown.
It's a kind of human genome project for the world's cities.
The gaps in her sequence were filled with DNA from other species, much like the genome in the first film was completed with frog DNA.
Missing Maps: the human genome project for cities.
The approach was known, too: break multiple copies of the genome up into random small pieces; sequence the individual pieces; then use a computer to work out, from the overlaps between those small sequences, how the whole thing fits together.
Collectively, these genes comprise the product's genome.
Method: Dr Julie Makani from Muhimbili University in Tanzania is working with the Wellcome Trust to conduct a genome-wide association study (GWAS) in order to better understand the genetic and environmental factors affecting SCD.
The business model clearly worked and up until 2001, ironically at about the time of the human-genome breakthroughs, most would have expected this trend to continue.
The technique is a logical extension of whole-genome analysis.
In a decade that frontier could go as far beyond ENCODE as ENCODE has surpassed the original genome-sequencing efforts.
