Word.ws English Dictionary

homeolocus

homeolocus noun: one of several loci that have the same sequence of nucleotides.

Noun

homeolocus (plural homeoloci)

  1. (in plural) One of several loci that have the same sequence of nucleotides.
    • A possible reason for the appearance of homozygous genotypes may be silencing mutations at one homeolocus at the tetrapolid level that the autogamous breeding system maintains as different lineages (MLILs).30 June 2010, Tatjana Oja, Tõnu Oja and Külli Zimmermann, Annales Botanici Fennici 47, "Genetic variation of Bromus hordeaceus s. lato (Poaceae) over its core distribution range", Finnish Zoological...

Forms of homeolocus

pluralhomeoloci

Origin of homeolocus

From homeo- + locus.

Questions about homeolocus

What does homeolocus mean?
Homeolocus means one of several loci that have the same sequence of nucleotides.
What part of speech is homeolocus?
Homeolocus is a noun.
What is the plural of homeolocus?
The plural of homeolocus is homeoloci.

Words near homeolocus in the dictionary

  1. homeoids
  2. homeokinesis
  3. homeokinetic
  4. homeokinetics
  5. homeoloci
  6. homeolocus
  7. homeolog
  8. homeological
  9. homeologies
  10. homeologous
  11. homeologs

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: homeolocus (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “homeolocus.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/homeolocus. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.