Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Variant of homologue.
Wiktionary
- n. Something homologous; a homologous organ or part, chemical compound or a chromosome.
- n. linguistics A word shared by two languages or dialects.
- n. genetics One of a group of similar DNA sequences that share a common ancestry.
- n. organic chemistry A member of a homologous series
Etymologies
- From French homologue, From Ancient Greek ὁμόλογος ("agreeing, of one mind"), equivalent to homo + -log (Wiktionary)
Examples
“As it turns out, a very similar gene, Atonal homolog 1, controls the development secretory cells in the lining of the colon in both humans and mice — and, as Bossyut and his team discovered, inactivating Atoh1 in mice triggers the onset of colon cancer.”
“Our genetic evidence from Drosophila and previous in vitro studies of mammalian Atonal homolog 1 (Atoh1, also called Math1 or Hath1) suggest an anti-oncogenic function for the Atonal group of proneural basic helix-loop-helix transcription factors.”
“In the summer of 1984, a team of researchers, collaborating with Weinberg, discovered the human homolog of the neu gene.”
“* Ullrich actually found the human homolog of the mouse neu gene.”
“It is not true that this paper: 'An ancient evolutionary origin of the Rag1/2 gene locus' shows a RAG1-RAG2 homolog serving a non-immune system function in sea urchins.”
“The current Whigocratic front-runner, Cleopatra Esposito, has the MMHH (meiotic mr hyde homolog), the so-called "tantrum" gene, on one of her X chromosomes.”
“His argument has always rested on the pillar of homology, yet he doesn't consider two unique and indispensible proteins that have no homolog (even by his relaxed standard) to require a conceptual leap.”
“Jackson and Plano (2000) report that the Yersinia pestis FliH homolog YscL (corresponding to SctL/HrpE in Figure 4a) has low but significant sequence similarity with the e subunit of the archaeal ATPase of Methanococcus jannaschii and the e subunit of the vacuolar ATPase of Desulfurococcus spp.; these subunits are the homologs of the b subunit of the F1F0-ATP synthetase.”
“Mut-7 of C. elegans, required for transposon silencing and RNA interference, is a homolog of Werner syndrome helicase and RNase D. Cell 99, 133-141.”
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“And the so far known to be needed prefrontal cortex seems to have an homolog in most or all mammals.”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘homolog’.
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-logue, -log
denoting a discourse or compilation
monologue, dialogue, catalog, blog, analog, monolog, dialog, homolog, backlog, prolog, epilog
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Monovocalics
Words that have only one of the vowels. On this list I include only words with at least three vowels. When I first started the list, if a word had several forms, I generally listed only the one wit...
syzygy, mirific, cumulus, homolog, monocot, bedewed, jezebel, referee, bikini, minikin, locomotor, terebenthene and 2359 more...
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