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- DictionaryGe·nome/ˈjēˌnōm/
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- 1. the haploid set of chromosomes in a gamete or microorganism, or in each cell of a multicellular organism.
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Entirety of an organism's hereditary information; genome of organism is the information of heredity which is passed from one generation of organism to the next; is transcribed to produce various RNAs
In the fields of molecular biology and genetics, a genome is all the genetic information of an organism. It consists of nucleotide sequences of DNA (or RNA in RNA viruses). The nuclear genome includes protein-coding genes and non-coding genes, other functional regions of the genome such as regulatory sequences (see non-coding DNA), and often a substantial fraction of junk DNA with no evident funct... Wikipedia