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terms | homeotic |

As a noun terms

is .

As an adjective homeotic is

of or pertaining to homeosis.

terms

English

Noun

(head)

    • Statistics

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    homeotic

    English

    Alternative forms

    * * homoeotic

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of or pertaining to homeosis.
  • *1999 , (Matt Ridley), Genome , Harper Perennial 2004, p. 176:
  • *:A certain segment of the body, in other words, had done something appropriate to a different segment of the body. Something had gone wrong with the homeotic genes.
  • * 2003 , (Bill Bryson), A Short History of Nearly Everything , BCA 2003, p. 365:
    • Further probings revealed the existence of a clutch of master control genes, each directing the development of a section of body, which were dubbed homeotic (from a Greek word meaning ‘similar’) or hox genes.