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Homolog

Homolog

See also: homolog

German

Noun

Homolog n (genitive Homologs, plural Homologe)

  1. (chemistry) homologue (member of a homologous series)

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homolog

homolog

See also: Homolog

English

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Noun

homolog (plural homologs)

  1. Something homologous; a homologous organ or part, chemical compound or a chromosome.
    • 2008, Chan-seok Jeong, Minho Lee, Dongsup Kim, Ratko Magjarevic, editor, World Congress of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering 2006, Volume 1 (Biomedical Engineering), ISBN 9783540368397, page 171:
      Detecting remote homolog by protein similarity network.
  2. (linguistics) A word shared by two languages or dialects.
  3. (genetics) One of a group of similar DNA sequences that share a common ancestry.
  4. (organic chemistry) A member of a homologous series

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German

Adjective

homolog (not comparable)

  1. homologous (all senses)

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