Definition of "genetic material" []

• The material used to store genetic information in the nuclei or mitochondria of an organism's cells; either DNA or RNA (noun)

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• "The often-quoted figure of about 98 per cent for the shared genetic material of humans and chimps actually refers neither to numbers of chromosomes nor to numbers of whole genes, but to numbers of DNA ‘letters’ technically, base pairs that match each other within the respective human and chimp genes."
• "Meiosis is also known as reduction division, because it involves reduction, by half, of the genetic material passed along to each cell."
• "Ten to the twenty-seventh power—a one followed by twenty-seven zeroes, a thousand million million million million atoms––are organized by a single act when a protozoan-like sperm cell adds its message of genetic material into a receptive egg cell."