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

  1. The complete genetic information of an organism

Ancestry of “genome”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Englishgenom
2GermanGenomgenome

Words derived from “genome

Every word from German Genom
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