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What does homolog mean?

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Noun
  1. Something homologous; a homologous organ or part, chemical compound or a chromosome.
  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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Well, now this is not the case, for during the reduction division the two paired homolog chromosomes cross over each other and exchange parts.
In the present context, a molecular genetic marker is considered as a point on a pair of homolog chromosomes of a diploid species.
Meiotic chromosome segregation is initiated when tension signals the bipolar attachment of microtubules to each homolog pair.
This homolog maps on chromosome 10L and is part of the most recent set of segmental duplications in the maize genome.
The topic of his research was Functional Characterization of Vti homolog 1b in Amblyomma americanum ticks.
Similarly, mutations within the Drosophila CBP homolog have wide-ranging pleiotropic phenotypes.

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