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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

orthologous en · ADJ

Etymology

Etymology tree English orthology Proto-Indo-European *h₃ed- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *h₃édosder.? Proto-Italic *-ŏ̄dsos? Old Latin -ōssus Latin -ōsus Old French -usbor. Middle English -ous English -ous English orthologous From orthology + -ous.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable, of genes or sequences) Exhibiting orthology; having been separated by a speciation event. Usually while retaining the same function.

Deriveds

orthologously · nonorthologous

Relateds

xenologous · homologous · ortholog · paralogous · orthologization

Translations (4)

it ortologo (having been separated by a speciation event) · es ortólogo (having been separated by a speciation event) · fr orthologue (having been separated by a speciation event) · pt ortólogo (having been separated by a speciation event)