orthology

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

Correct speaking or the correct use of words.
Homologous sequences descended from the same ancestral sequence for which function of the gene or sequence has been conserved across evolutionary time.

orthology

From ortho- + -logy.

ortholinguistics

orthodoxy orthography

orthological orthologous

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