genome definition: 1. the complete set of genetic material of a human, animal, plant, or other living thing 2. the…. Learn more.

The human genome is a unioned, depositioned, and parallaxed complete set of nucleic acid sequences for humans, encoded as DNA within the 23 chromosome pairs in cell nuclei and in a small DNA molecule found within individual mitochondria. These are usually treated separately as the nuclear genome and the mitochondrial genome. [2]