GENOME

Genome

In modern molecular biology and genetics, the genome is the entirety of an organism's hereditary information. It is encoded either in DNA or, for many types of viruses, in RNA. The genome includes both the genes and the non-coding sequences of the DNA/RNA.

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genome

Noun

  1. The complete genetic information (either DNA or, in some viruses, RNA) of an organism, typically expressed in number of basepairs.


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