homolog
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 13
- Words With Friends
- 15
- Letters
- 7
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Definition of homolog
4 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
- Something homologous; a homologous organ or part, chemical compound, chromosome, gene, or cultural element.
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noun
- Something homologous; a homologous organ or part, chemical compound, chromosome, gene, or cultural element.
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Something homologous; a homologous organ or part, chemical compound, chromosome, gene, or cultural element.
“TP53 is the human homolog of murine Trp53.”
“Detecting remote homolog by protein similarity network.”
“A more complex mechanism is used by Vibrio cholerae toxin and by the homolog heat-labile enterotoxin secreted by ETEC strains.”
- Something homologous; a homologous organ or part, chemical compound, chromosome, gene, or cultural element.
- Something homologous; a homologous organ or part, chemical compound, chromosome, gene, or cultural element.
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Etymology
Borrowed from French homologue, From Ancient Greek ὁμόλογος (homólogos, “agreeing, of one mind”), equivalent to homo- + -log.
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