Multiple choice

Which of the following best describes genome?

  1. DNA sequencing of a living being

  2. Gene structure of a plant or animal

  3. The entirety of an organism’s hereditary information

  4. Genetic material of a micro-organism

  5. All of the above
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Explanation

In modern molecular biology and genetics, the genome is the entirety of an organism's hereditary information. It is encoded either in DNA or, for many types of virus, in RNA. The genome includes both the genes and the non-coding sequences of the DNA/RNA.

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