What does homeotic mean?
Homeotic means Of or pertaining to homeosis.
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/hɒmiːˈɒtɪk/ · adjective
Of or pertaining to homeosis.
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.
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.
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Homeotic means Of or pertaining to homeosis.
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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.
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