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paralogues

paralogues is the plural of paralogue.

Meaning of paralogue

Noun

paralogue (plural paralogues)

  1. A pair of genes that derives from the same ancestral gene and now reside at different locations within the same genome.

Forms of paralogues

alternative formparalogs

Questions about paralogues

What is paralogues the plural of?
Paralogues is the plural of paralogue.

Words near paralogues in the dictionary

  1. paralogons
  2. paralogous
  3. paralogously
  4. paralogs
  5. paralogue
  6. paralogues
  7. paraloguous
  8. paralogy
  9. paraloph
  10. paralophid
  11. paralophids

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Adapted from Wiktionary: paralogues (page history and authors); paralogue (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.

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