: one haploid set of chromosomes with the genes they contain
broadly
: the genetic material of an organism compare proteome
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The intriguing finding, published Thursday in the journal Science, could help explain why the Neanderthal ancestry that is present in humans today is unevenly distributed across the genome.
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Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 26 Feb. 2026
Free-living non-native pigs east of the Wallace Line exhibit complex genomes that suggest waves of prehistoric human translocations.
—Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harpers Magazine, 24 Feb. 2026
What may actually be surprising is that cats and humans share about 90 percent of their respective genomes.
—K. R. Callaway, Scientific American, 19 Feb. 2026
The team identified a region in the banana genome that controls resistance to a strain of Fusarium wilt called Sub Tropical Race 4 (STR4), which affects bananas in subtropical regions.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 19 Feb. 2026
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Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 26 Feb. 2026
Free-living non-native pigs east of the Wallace Line exhibit complex genomes that suggest waves of prehistoric human translocations.
—Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harpers Magazine, 24 Feb. 2026
What may actually be surprising is that cats and humans share about 90 percent of their respective genomes.
—K. R. Callaway, Scientific American, 19 Feb. 2026
The team identified a region in the banana genome that controls resistance to a strain of Fusarium wilt called Sub Tropical Race 4 (STR4), which affects bananas in subtropical regions.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 19 Feb. 2026
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genome
noun
ge·nome
ˈjē-ˌnōm 
: one haploid set of chromosomes with the genes they contain
broadly
: the genetic material of an organism
The idea behind sequencing an organism's genome—decoding, letter by letter, the message contained in every last one of its genes—is that it would tell us a lot about how the organism works. —Lori Oliwenstein, Discover
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