Genome in sentence

369 examples of Genome in a sentence

In a biohacker space, you can analyze your genome for mutations.

Another thing we can't see is the human genome.

And this is increasingly peculiar, because about 20 years ago when they started delving into the genome, they thought it would probably contain around 100 thousand genes.

We now think there are likely to be just over 20 thousand genes in the human genome.

Inside every cell in your body lies your genome.

Your genome is made up of your DNA, your DNA codes for proteins that enable you to function and interact and be as you are.

Now since the new advancements in modern molecular technologies, it is now possible for us to sequence our own genome in a very rapid time and at a very, very reduced cost.

Now when we've been doing this, we've realized that there's variations within our genome.

And so therefore, if you look at the same region of a genome in many mammals that have been evolutionarily distant from each other and are also ecologically divergent, you will get a better understanding of what the evolutionary prior of that site is, i.e., if it is important for the mammal to function, for its survival, it will be the same in all of those different lineages, species, taxa.

So in this case here, if all the mammals that we look at have a yellow-type genome at that site, it probably suggests that purple is bad.

So say, for example, the region of the genome that I was looking at was a region that's important for vision.

This is where we're going to go, and as I said before, I really believe that the secret of everlasting youth lies within the bat genome.

So how could the secret of everlasting youth actually lie within the bat genome?

It's DNA which is pretty badly fragmented, but with good techniques now, you can basically reassemble the whole genome.

Then the question is, can you reassemble, with that genome, the whole bird?

The passenger pigeon has 1.3 billion base pairs in its genome.

So this is a form of synthetic hybridization of the genome of an extinct species with the genome of its closest living relative.

The aurochs is the ancestor of all domestic cattle, and so basically its genome is alive, it's just unevenly distributed.

Well, one way to go faster is to take advantage of technology, and a very important technology that we depend on for all of this is the human genome, the ability to be able to look at a chromosome, to unzip it, to pull out all the DNA, and to be able to then read out the letters in that DNA code, the A's, C's, G's and T's that are our instruction book and the instruction book for all living things, and the cost of doing this, which used to be in the hundreds of millions of dollars, has in the course of the last 10 years fallen faster than Moore's Law, down to the point where it is less than 10,000 dollars today to have your genome sequenced, or mine, and we're headed for the $1,000 genome fairly soon.

But the second example I want to give you is, I happened to be an early guinea pig, and I got very lucky to have my whole genome sequenced.

If you had asked me 10 years ago whether or not we would ever be able to sequence the genome of extinct animals, I would have told you, it's unlikely.

Well, the mammoth genome is almost at full completion, and we know that it's actually really big.

So a hominid genome is about three billion base pairs, but an elephant and mammoth genome is about two billion base pairs larger, and most of that is composed of small, repetitive DNAs that make it very difficult to actually re-jig the entire structure of the genome.

So having this information allows us to answer one of the interesting relationship questions between mammoths and their living relatives, the African and the Asian elephant, all of which shared an ancestor seven million years ago, but the genome of the mammoth shows it to share a most recent common ancestor with Asian elephants about six million years ago, so slightly closer to the Asian elephant.

So that means that we can actually take Asian elephant chromosomes, modify them into all those positions we've actually now been able to discriminate with the mammoth genome, we can put that into an enucleated cell, differentiate that into a stem cell, subsequently differentiate that maybe into a sperm, artificially inseminate an Asian elephant egg, and over a long and arduous procedure, actually bring back something that looks like this.

That's a big chunk of the global genome gone.

They took some of this same pickled thylacine DNA and they spliced it into a mouse genome, but they put a tag on it so that anything that this thylacine DNA produced would appear blue-green in the mouse baby.

And that tells us if we can get that genome back together, get it into a live cell, it's going to produce thylacine stuff.

We can also envision a romantic use of the genome.

The first human genome, that of James Watson, was mapped as the culmination of the Human Genome Project in the year 2000, and it took about 200 million dollars and about 10 years of work to map just one person's genomic makeup.

Related words