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 →Every word from English genom →