Discipline that studies all the genetic material (genome) of an organism.
Unlike genetics, which is often concerned with one or a few isolated genes, genomics is concerned with all genes simultaneously, their structure, function, interactions and expression.
- Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) :
- Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) contains all the genetic information, known as the genome, that enables living organisms to develop, function and reproduce.