Where does “genome” come from?
Genome is a twentieth-century English coinage from German Genom, itself formed from Greek genos meaning "kind" or "race" and the suffix -om.
genome (English): The complete genetic information of an organism
Definitions
- The complete genetic information of an organism
Ancestry of “genome”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | English | genom | — |
| 2 | German | Genom | genome |
Words derived from “genome”