How to Use genetic code in a Sentence

genetic code

noun

• Around the same time, another N.I.H. team helped to break the genetic code.
  — Beverly Gage, The New Yorker, 23 Jan. 2023
• Did something in the genetic code cause her son to suffer like this?
  — Meg Kissinger, jsonline.com, 31 Aug. 2021
• The latter, for which results can take a day or more to come back from a lab, detect pieces of the virus’s genetic code.
  — Tara Santora, Scientific American, 12 Oct. 2021
• The researchers scanned the genetic code of those 40 bunnies to look for a section of the code that was unique to hand-standing bunnies.
  — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Mar. 2021
• The Human Genome Project didn’t reveal the first draft of our genetic code until 2003.
  — Emily Mullin, Wired, 21 Oct. 2021
• In the case of food, that threat is protein your genetic code doesn’t recognize.
  — Abby Langer, Men's Health, 29 Apr. 2022
• Each of these mutations and deletions refers to a single change in the virus' genetic code.
  — Grace Wade, Health.com, 7 Jan. 2022
• During a cool phase, a protein latches onto the genetic code of the virus and creates a short copy.
  — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 June 2021
• Dixon compares this new scheme to the genetic code, in which four chemical building blocks combine to form the genes in a strand of DNA.
  — Katie McCormick, Quanta Magazine, 1 Aug. 2022
• New variants emerge when mutations occur in the genetic code of the virus.
  — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 27 June 2021
• Now, Cushman and his team want to build off the lines of genetic code that give desert plants their superpowers.
  — Melina Walling, The Arizona Republic, 9 Nov. 2021
• Once these spike proteins can unlock the cells, the infection spreads by replicating the genetic code of the virus.
  — Manavi Kapur, Quartz, 23 June 2021
• The only difference would be a few lines of genetic code that would ever so slightly change the shape of the spike protein.
  — Deborah Fuller, Quartz, 3 Dec. 2021
• To back up the results, the researchers also analyzed the genetic codes of each spider species.
  — Jack Tamisiea, Scientific American, 20 Dec. 2023
• Over the years, these changes in the genetic code have allowed the bats to survive on an iron-rich blood diet that's low in fats or carbohydrates.
  — Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Mar. 2022
• This time not by jets but a microscopic strand of genetic code.
  — Peter Kaminsky, Bon Appétit, 18 Aug. 2021
• That provides the genetic code of a virus, laying out for scientists a precise map for how to defeat it.
  — David Heath, USA Today, 7 Apr. 2021
• Or perhaps, as with the genetic code, there is one more or less unifying system.
  — Jennifer Frazer, Scientific American, 28 May 2021
• Alien life could have genetic code with, say, different bases.
  — Sarah Scoles, Scientific American, 13 Jan. 2023
• Mutations are a significant change to the genetic code of a virus.
  — Biman Mukherji, Fortune, 28 Apr. 2021
• Scientists found small changes in the genetic code for the TAS2R38 gene among different people.
  — Monica Dus, The Conversation, 16 June 2023
• Taking a look at a person’s genetic code, then, can predict which antigens are present.
  — Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 May 2023
• Researchers can link these fragments of genetic code to certain types of cancer.
  — Claire Bugos, Verywell Health, 30 May 2023
• One flag is composed solely from purples, browns, deep greens and shades of black, rendered almost like strands of genetic code.
  — Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2021
• On this day 23 years ago, two teams of scientists produced a draft version of the human genetic code — also known as the human genome.
  — Elvia Limón, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2023
• But both seeds offered enough genetic code to compare them to more recent melons.
  — Bridget Alex, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Nov. 2022
• These balls were about the size of a virus and were completely customizable through a simple change to their genetic code.
  — Rowan Jacobsen, Scientific American, 27 June 2021
• The genetic code of the virus works like an instruction manual, which keeps updating to improve the virus’s chances of survival.
  — Biman Mukherji, Fortune, 10 May 2021
• Rasmussen said that means identical twins aren't identical in the genetic code of the cells that make up their immune system.
  — Andrea Kane, CNN, 8 May 2021
• For one thing, a living, breathing mammoth is much more than the animal’s genetic code.
  — Riley Black, Discover Magazine, 28 Nov. 2022

Last Updated: 28 May 2024