Associations to the word «Genome»

Wiktionary

GENOME, noun. (genetics)   The complete genetic information (either DNA or, in some viruses, RNA) of an organism.
GENOME TRANSPLANT, noun. (genetics) A procedure in which DNA from one species is transplanted into a cell of another species, and after repeated division of hybrid cells the original cells are destroyed; only achieved in bacteria so far

Dictionary definition

GENOME, noun. The ordering of genes in a haploid set of chromosomes of a particular organism; the full DNA sequence of an organism; "the human genome contains approximately three billion chemical base pairs".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats