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6 letters · 9 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun the ordering of genes in a haploid set of chromosomes of a particular organism; the full DNA sequence of an organism
originFrom earlier genom, from German Genom, coined by German botanist Hans Winkler in 1920 as a blend of Gen (“gene”) + Chromosom (“chromosome”). By surface analysis, gen(e) + -ome, or a blend of gen(e) + (chromos)ome. Spelling altered to reflect the surface analysis.
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