genome Definition
ge·nome (jē′nōm′)
noun
- one complete haploid set of chromosomes of an organism
- the total genetic information present in a somatic cell and unique to any specific organism
Etymology: Ger genom < gen, gene + (chromos)om, chromosome
genome Related Forms
ge·nom′ic (-nō′mik, -näm′ik) adjective
genome Usage Examples
Preposition: of
organism: The same is true of all genomes of higher organisms.
Converse of object
- sequenced: This is truly ironic that it could happen at the very time that we have sequenced the human genome.
- decode: There's been a lot of hype over decoding the genome of humans and other organisms.
- invade: Alien genetic material invading genomes also give rise to gene mutations, some of which may result in cancer.
Adjective modifier
- microbial: Annotation Artemis is now the main annotation tool used for analysis of microbial genomes at the Sanger Institute.
- eukaryotic: Using Artemis as a sequence analysis tool for prokaryote and small eukaryotic genomes.
- sequenced: For the existing sequenced genomes function can be assigned to typically only between 40-60 % of the Open Reading Frames ( ORFs ).
- mitochondrial: The human mitochondrial genome is a small circular DNA molecule 16 568 bp in length containing 37 genes.
- viral: However, in a minority of cervical cancer cases, the HPV viral genome fails to integrate into the host genome.
- mammalian: The similarities between mammalian genomes can be exploited in a variety of ways.
Modifies a noun
- sequence: In reality, the only concrete offering from the human genome sequence is hundreds of patented gene tests.
- shotgun: At present, approximately 6.4 million traces from the MSC's whole genome shotgun sequencing effort have been deposited into the archives.
- replication: Genome replication: The stage of viral replication at which the virus genome is copied to form new progeny genomes.
- annotation: This approach can also be used to automatically test biological genome annotations.
Noun used with modifier
- elegans: The sequencing of the C. elegans genome has relied almost entirely on the sequence ready contigs provided by the physical map.
- chloroplast: The chloroplast genome codes for the transcription and translation machinery of the chloroplast plus numerous structural proteins.
- rice: How will the rice genome sequence, recently announced, affect the food security of the poor?
- briggsae: Comparing syntenic regions of the C. elegans and C. briggsae genomes.
- falciparum: This will serve as useful comparative genomics resource to complement the complete Plasmodium falciparum genome.
- plasmodium: This will serve as useful comparative genomics resource to complement the complete Plasmodium falciparum genome.

