The German botanist Hans Winkler (Hans Winkler, 1920) first used the term genome. The first complete genome sequencing of MS-2 virus was performed in 1976. In 1977, Dr. F. Sanger pioneered the sequencing of DNA and was the first organism to determine the genome sequence of bacteriophage. In 2020, French scientist Emmanuel Carpenter and American scientist Jennifer A. Doudana was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Their technology is called Crisper Case Nile Genetic Scissors.
The specific order of nucleotides in a DNA molecule is called sequence. The process of determining the nucleotide or sequence of DNA is called genome sequencing. Bangladeshi scientist Dr. Maqsudul Alam and his collaborators have unraveled the genome sequencing of Tosha Pat. 12 crores of base pairs of jute. The genome of Paris japonica is the longest in the plant world. It consists of 150 billion base pairs. The genetic information of one of its cells is 328 feet long. Professor Dr. Muhammad Nurul Islam and his colleagues completed genome sequencing of mung bean yellow mosaic virus using RNAi method. The promoter of genome sequencing is Dr. Sanger (Dr. F. Sanger).