Homolog

Pronunciation

• RP IPA: /ˈhÉ’mÉ™lÉ’É¡/
• US IPA: /ˈhɑːmÉ™lɑːɡ/, /ˈhoÊŠmÉ™lɑːɡ/

Alternative forms

• homologue

Origin

From French homologue, From Ancient Greek ὁμόλογος ("agreeing, of one mind"), equivalent to homo + -log

Full definition of homolog

Noun

1. Something homologous; a homologous organ or part, chemical compound or a chromosome.
• 2008 , Chan-seok Jeong, Minho Lee, Dongsup Kim , World Congress of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering 2006, Volume 1 Chapter , 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

Related terms

• homologous
• homologous series
• homologize
• homology