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Etymology

The German botanist Johannes Karl Albert Winkler, who failed Greek lessons, coined “genome” on the pattern of “chromosome” but forgot the “s”:

Chromo-some: Color-body (shows up when stained) Gen-ome: Gene-(nonsense suffix)

Stick that in your meme-ome.

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