genome

/ˌdʒiˈnoʊm/

/ˈdʒinəʊm/

Other forms: genomes

The human genome is the map of your DNA, the double helix that contains all your genes. Your genome is all the genetic material contained in your 23 pairs of chromosomes, a total of more than 20,000 genes.

Every organism has its own unique genome. "The Human Genome Project," completed in 2003, was an international effort to identify all the genes in human DNA and to determine the sequences of the 3 billion (yes, billion) base pairs — the smaller units that make up DNA. It took 13 years. Genome research has helped diagnose disease and find genetic markers for certain diseases.

Definitions of genome

1. noun

   the ordering of genes in a haploid set of chromosomes of a particular organism; the full DNA sequence of an organism
   “the human genome contains approximately three billion chemical base pairs”

   type of:

   order, ordering, ordination

   logical or comprehensible arrangement of separate elements