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Meaning of "homologous" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF HOMOLOGOUS

homologous  [həʊˈmɒləɡəs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF HOMOLOGOUS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Homologous is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES HOMOLOGOUS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of homologous in the English dictionary

The first definition of homologous in the dictionary is having a related or similar position, structure, etc. Other definition of homologous is having similar characteristics and structure but differing by a number of CH2 groups. Homologous is also identical in structure.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH HOMOLOGOUS


analogous
əˈnæləɡəs
anthropophagus
ˌænθrəˈpɒfəɡəs
antilogous
ænˈtɪləɡəs
Areopagus
ˌærɪˈɒpəɡəs
asparagus
əˈspærəɡəs
autologous
ɔːˈtɒləɡəs
brachylogous
bræˈkɪləɡəs
disanalogous
ˌdɪsəˈnæləɡəs
esophagus
iːˈsɒfəɡəs
heterologous
ˌhɛtəˈrɒləɡəs
isologous
aɪˈsɒləɡəs
nonhomologous
ˌnɒnhəʊˈmɒləɡəs
oesophagus
iːˈsɒfəɡəs
ophiophagous
ˌɒfɪˈɒfəɡəs
pantophagous
pænˈtɒfəɡəs
physiologus
ˌfɪzɪˈɒləɡəs
phytophagous
faɪˈtɒfəɡəs
polyphagous
pəˈlɪfəɡəs
sarcophagus
sɑːˈkɒfəɡəs
tautologous
tɔːˈtɒləɡəs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE HOMOLOGOUS

homolog
homologate
homologation
homologic
homological
homologically
homologies
homologise
homologiser
homologize
homologizer
homologoumena
homologous chromosomes
homolographic
homologue
homologumena
homology
homolosine projection
homolysis
homolytic

WORDS THAT END LIKE HOMOLOGOUS

anthropophagous
azygous
coprophagous
dendrologous
entomophagous
fungous
hematophagous
hemizygous
heterozygous
homozygous
humongous
humungous
hylophagous
meliphagous
melliphagous
multijugous
necrophagous
omophagous
scatophagous
wrongous

Synonyms and antonyms of homologous in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «HOMOLOGOUS»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «homologous» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of homologous

Translation of «homologous» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF HOMOLOGOUS

Find out the translation of homologous to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of homologous from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «homologous» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

同源
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

homóloga
570 millions of speakers

English

homologous
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

मुताबिक़
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

مثلي
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

гомологичны
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

homólogo
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

সদৃশ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

homologue
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Homolog
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

homolog
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

相同の
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

상동
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Homolog
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

tương đồng
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

ஒத்திசைவுப்பொருளுக்குரிய
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

Homologous
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

homolog
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

omologo
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

homologiczne
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

гомологични
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

omolog
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ομόλογο
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

homoloë
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

homolog
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

homolog
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of homologous

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «HOMOLOGOUS»

The term «homologous» is very widely used and occupies the 22.146 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «HOMOLOGOUS» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about homologous

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HOMOLOGOUS»

Discover the use of homologous in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to homologous and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Mechanism of Homologous Recombination Mediated by Human ...
5.3 Human Rad51 Can Promote Strand Exchange without a Free End of Homologous Single-Stranded DNA Although it is generally believed that free- ended homologous ssDNA is needed for the ssDNA-invasion process that initiates the ...
Yu-Cheng Tsai, 2008
2
Cis-determinants of Recombination Initiation and Homologous ...
In polyploid varieties of wheat, homologous chromosomes become paired well before meiotic prophase I in developing anthers. It is possible that such a mechanism is adaptive in order to pre-sort homologous pairs of chromosomes over ...
Joshua Chang Mell, 2007
3
Molecular Biology: Genes to Proteins
Here we examine repair of double strand breaks (DSBs) by a process known as homologous recombination. Homologous recombination is responsible for much of the genetic diversity among progeny of common parentage and is also ...
Burton E. Tropp, 2012
4
Animal Calcium Release-Activated Calcium (CRAC) Channels are ...
When TMSs 1-2 (segment 1-2) of CDF proteins were compared with TMSs 3-4 ( segment 3-4) of homologous CDF carriers, the highest comparison score was obtained (12.2 S.D.). This value corresponded to 28.6% identity and 44.6% similarity ...
Madeleine Gundayao Matias, 2008
5
A Bayesian Method for Divergence Time Estimation from ...
This result is based on a model for the analysis of HV1 sequences in the mitochondrial genome and homologous Numt sequences. While I know of no other methods to jointly analyze mitochondrial and homologous Numt sequences , there are ...
Joungyoun Kim, 2008
6
Theoretical Kinematics
Our F is a (metrically specialized) surface of type II in Schwarz's classification. We return to some of its properties later on (Section 10). Considering now triads of collinear homologous points A,, A:, A3 in V, we know that their basic point A * is ...
Oene Bottema, B. Roth, 1979
7
Applied Molecular Genetics of Filamentous Fungi
This is to be contrasted with N. crassa where the frequency of homologous recombination is low [63]. Homologous recombination does occur in A. nidulans at a frequency that is intermediate between these two systems [4, 53]. The types of ...
J.R. Kinghorn, Geoffrey Turner, 1992
8
Human Embryonic Stem Cells: The Practical Handbook
Gene targeting in human embryonic stem cells: Knock out and knock in by homologous recombination THOMAS P. ZWAKA Center for Cell and Gene Therapy and the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, ...
Stephen Sullivan, Chad A Cowan, Kevin Eggan, 2007
9
Function Theory of One Complex Variable
We say that 7 is homologous to 0 if Ind7(P) = 0 for all points P e C \ U. The intuition here is just this: Suppose that 7 is a simple closed curve in U. Intuitively, one expects the complement of 7 to have two components, a bounded "interior" and an ...
Robert Everist Greene, Steven George Krantz, 2006
10
The Cell Cycle: Principles of Control
Non-homologous end joining is a common repair mechanism during G1 in mammalian cells, where a small loss of sequence can be tolerated because so much mammalian DNA does not encode proteins. It is less frequent in eukaryotes that ...
David Morgan, 2007

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HOMOLOGOUS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term homologous is used in the context of the following news items.
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Parent-progeny sequencing indicates higher mutation rates in …
... AT3G23120) between Col and Ler (or homologous chromosomes in the F1). ... in repeat sequences or homologous gene clusters (Supplementary Table 7). «Nature.com, Jul 15»
2
BMC Bioinformatics | Full text | Joint haplotype assembly and …
The chromosomes in a pair of autosomes are homologous, i.e., they have similar composition and carry the same type of information but are ... «BMC Blogs Network, Jul 15»
3
MiMedx Group, Inc (NASDAQ:MDXG) Analyst Rating Update
MiMedx processes the human amniotic membrane utilizing its Purion Process to produce a manipulated implant for homologous use. MiMedx ... «Money Flow Index, Jul 15»
4
Study shows differences in brain activity of humans and macaques …
Second, potentially homologous areas in the dorsal attention network have markedly different biases toward representing the contralateral ... «Phys.Org, Jul 15»
5
Parochial Structuralism
Levi-Strauss' distinction of nature and culture is homologous with Saussure's insistence that the relationship between the signifier and the ... «First Things, Jul 15»
6
Aging in Microbes
... up to one another, merge their protoplasm, and then exchange DNA, with individual genes swapped between homologous chromosomes. «h+ Magazine, Jul 15»
7
Search for common targets of lithium and valproic acid identifies …
First (5′) and last (3′) of the three CpG islands were hypomethylated, and corresponded to the rat promoter (b) and the homologous mouse ... «Nature.com, Jul 15»
8
Epigenetics: Disrupting histone lysine methylation
WDR5 directly binds SETD1A, SETD1B or one of four MLL homologous methyltransferases, and this interaction is required for the enzymes to ... «Nature.com, Jul 15»
9
Researchers Identify a Novel Disease Gene Causing …
Homologous genes in baker's yeast work in combination with a gene called UGO1, which has ancestral similarities to SLC25A46. The new ... «HealthCanal.com, Jul 15»
10
Short Interest Update of MiMedx Group, Inc (NASDAQ:MDXG)
MiMedx processes the human amniotic membrane utilizing its Purion Process to produce a manipulated implant for homologous use. MiMedx ... «Insider Trading Report, Jul 15»

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