How to Use genetic code in a Sentence

genetic code

noun

• Their number of limbs is immutable, set by their genetic code.
  — Rasha Aridi, Science | AAAS, 10 Sep. 2020
• Their genetic code leads younger kids to explore the world around them and learn how to behave.
  — Rebecca Renner, National Geographic, 21 Oct. 2020
• Instead, the test may be picking up fragments of the virus's genetic code.
  — NBC News, 14 Aug. 2020
• So far authorities have rationed the use of the more precise molecular tests that detect the genetic code of the virus.
  — Aniruddha Ghosal and Matthew Perrone, Star Tribune, 22 Aug. 2020
• That drug, called mRNA-1273, uses a piece of genetic code to defend the body against the virus.
  — Anne Saker, The Enquirer, 24 Sep. 2020
• That is not to say that Biden doesn’t have all the stubbornness or hubris that’s embedded in the genetic code alongside political ambition.
  — Washington Post, 6 Oct. 2020
• Here’s a quick recap: The PCR process doubles the small amount of viral genetic code found in a swab sample over and over again until there are many millions of copies.
  — Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 30 Sep. 2020
• The process reveals tiny, otherwise invisible changes in the virus’s genetic code, leaving a fingerprint that gives scientists valuable glimpses into how the disease is spreading.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 14 Oct. 2020
• Monod used several chapters to describe the insights that had very recently emerged from the study of DNA and the deciphering of the genetic code.
  — Sean B. Carroll, The Atlantic, 6 Oct. 2020
• Some experts are quick to note that not all changes to the virus’s genetic code are cause for alarm.
  — Amina Khan Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 21 Dec. 2020
• 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
• One of the central issues is that HIV is a shapeshifter: The virus’s genetic code mutates at the highest rate known to science.
  — Annalisa Merelli and Jonathan Wosen, STAT, 17 May 2024
• 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
• Viral variants are new versions of a virus that arise as a result of small changes in its genetic code.
  — Sarah Toy, WSJ, 1 Jan. 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
• When an RNA virus like the one that causes Covid-19 replicates inside a new host, mistakes can be made in its genetic code.
  — Joanna Sugden, WSJ, 30 Jan. 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
• Sequencing a short region of each fungus’s genetic code can tell them apart.
  — Rachel Bujalski Veronique Greenwood, New York Times, 11 June 2024

Last Updated: 1 Oct 2024