A karyome is the totality of an organism's major genomic components such as chromosomes. A human karyome contains all the chromosomes and mitochondria.
Karyome also depicts the total diversity of chromosomes of the species. A deer species can have different numbers of chromosomes and chromosome sizes.
Karyome is important for cancer research. Cancer cells and cell lines can have a very diverse karyotypes. The totality of them is the karyome.
A chondriome is the totality of organelle genetic materials. A human being consists of a karyome, a chondriome, and a microbiome. The sum of these omes is the supergenome.
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