locus

As nouns the difference between locus and lotus

is that locus is a place or locality, especially a centre of activity or the scene of a crime while lotus is a kind of aquatic plant, genus Nelumbo in the family Nelumbonaceae.

As nouns the difference between locum and locus

is that locum is abbreviated form of locum tenens while locus is a place or locality, especially a centre of activity or the scene of a crime.

As nouns the difference between locust and locus

is that locust is a type of grasshopper in the family Acrididae that flies in swarms and is very destructive to crops and other vegetation while locus is a place or locality, especially a centre of activity or the scene of a crime.

As nouns the difference between locus and locater

is that locus is a place or locality, especially a centre of activity or the scene of a crime while locater is something which serves to locate.

In genetics terms the difference between gene and locus

is that gene is a unit of heredity; a segment of DNA or RNA that is transmitted from one generation to the next, and that carries genetic information such as the sequence of amino acids for a protein while locus is a fixed position on a chromosome that may be occupied by one or more genes.

As a proper noun Gene

is a diminutive of Eugene, also used as a formal male given name.

As nouns the difference between taxonomy and locus

is that taxonomy is the science or the technique used to make a classification while locus is a place or locality, especially a centre of activity or the scene of a crime.

As nouns the difference between locus and track

is that locus is a place or locality, especially a centre of activity or the scene of a crime while track is a mark left by something that has passed along; as, the track, or wake, of a ship; the track of a meteor; the track of a sled or a wheel.

As a verb track is

to observe the (measured) state of an object over time.

As nouns the difference between locus and cissoid

is that locus is a place or locality, especially a centre of activity or the scene of a crime while cissoid is (geometry) any of a family of curves defined as the locus of a point, p'', on a line from a given fixed point and intersecting two given curves, ''c''₁ and ''c''₂, where the distance along the line from ''c''₁ to ''p'' remains constant and equal to the distance from ''p'' to ''c ₂.

In mathematics terms the difference between locus and glissette

is that locus is the set of all points whose coordinates satisfy a given equation or condition while glissette is the locus described by any point attached to a curve that moves continuously along another fixed curve, the movable curve having no rotation at any instant.

As nouns the difference between locus and glissette

is that locus is a place or locality, especially a centre of activity or the scene of a crime while glissette is the locus described by any point attached to a curve that moves continuously along another fixed curve, the movable curve having no rotation at any instant.

As nouns the difference between locus and conchoid

is that locus is a place or locality, especially a centre of activity or the scene of a crime while conchoid is any of a family of curves defined as the locus of points p, such that each p is on a line that passes through a given fixed point P and intersects a given curve, C, and the distance from p to the point of intersection with C is a specified constant (note that for nontrivial cases two such points p satisfy the criteria, and the resultant curve has two parts).