Etymology

genom

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German Genom
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  1. German · derived fromGenom
  2. English todaygenom

From German Genom, coined by German botanist Hans Winkler in 1920 as a blend of Gen (“gene”) + Chromosom (“chromosome”).

Words from the same roots

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genome

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.