Biology / Unit 7 Bio 1603 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Metabolomics
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The idea
Metabolomics studies an organism's metabolome, the complete set of small-molecule metabolites related to its genetic makeup, comparing genotype against physical and environmental factors.
In practice
Cataloguing every small-molecule metabolite in a tissue sample is a metabolomic study, distinct from cataloguing that tissue's genes or proteins.
Where people slip
A metabolome catalogues small-molecule metabolites specifically — a distinct level from the genome's sequence and the proteome's protein set.
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