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Date: 1900-2000
Language: Greek
Origin: genos 'birth, race, type' + English chromosome

genome

 noun
     
Related topics: Biology, Microbes, Genetics, Biochem
ge‧nome [countable] technical
HB all the genes in one cell of living thing:
the human genome
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