| Understanding Genes and Gene Technology: Course Module: Module 1: Evolution, DNA and the Genome
Course Topic: The chemical structure of DNA
Comment: I found that the terminology on DNA and genome quite insightful. Through my own collective research, I discovered that the word genome comes from Greece * meaning " I become, I am born, to come into being". It's also known that the Oxford English Dictionary suggests that the name should be a blend of words, gene and chromosome creating the existence of genome. A few related - ome already existed, such as biome and rhizome, forming a vocabulary into which genome fits in * modern molecular biology and genetic, the genome of the entirety of an organism hereditary information. It is encoded either in the DNA or for many types of virus, in the RNA.The genome includes both the genes and the non-coding sequences of the DNA/RNA. The term was adapted in 1920 by Hans Winkler, Professor of Botany at the University of Hamburg in Germany. |
