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Meaning of ómica




Felipe Lorenzo del Río

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German neological suffix typical of different disciplines of medical sciences and molecular biology such as Genomics or genome study, proteomics or study of proteome or Interactomics, study of the relationships between proteins and other molecules of the proteins Cells. The term genome was coined by the German botanist Hans Winkler to define the set of genes in each cell. Logically the word comes from the Greek genoses, origin, offspring, birth, gender and ultimately from gignomai, born, become more the suffix -oma that gives idea of set or grouping.

  



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