homeobox
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 22
- Words With Friends
- 23
- Letters
- 8
Definition of homeobox
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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A short sequence of DNA that is shared by several genes involved in the morphogenesis of many organisms.
“When he looked in mice, there it was again: almost exactly the same 180-letter string – the homeobox.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From homeo- + box.
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