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GENOMICS

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

The branch of genetics that studies organisms in terms of their genomes (their full DNA sequences)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("genomics" is a kind of...):

genetic science; genetics (the branch of biology that studies heredity and variation in organisms)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "genomics"):

functional genomics (the branch of genomics that determines the biological function of the genes and their products)

structural genomics (the branch of genomics that determines the three-dimensional structures of proteins)

Credits

 Context examples: 

Using ‘single-cell genomics’, scientists at the Wellcome Trust Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute at the University of Cambridge developed an ingenious strategy to uncover what happens in different tadpole cells when they regenerate their tails.

(Scientists find new type of cell that helps tadpoles’ tails regenerate, University of Cambridge)