Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The hock.
- To hock; hamstring.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To hock; to hamstring. See
hock .
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- abbreviation genetics
homeobox - verb obsolete, transitive To
hock ; tohamstring .
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Examples
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It was a triumph of late twentieth-century embryology and genetics to show that insect segmentation and vertebrate segmentation, far from being independent of each other as I was taught, are actually mediated by parallel sets of genes, the so-called hox genes, which are recognizably similar in insects and vertebrates and many other animals, and that the genes are even laid out in the correct serial order in the chromosomes!
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009
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It was a triumph of late twentieth-century embryology and genetics to show that insect segmentation and vertebrate segmentation, far from being independent of each other as I was taught, are actually mediated by parallel sets of genes, the so-called hox genes, which are recognizably similar in insects and vertebrates and many other animals, and that the genes are even laid out in the correct serial order in the chromosomes!
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009
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That might tell us a lot more about hox gene regulation than is presently known.
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It would be interesting if bio-chemists could test the reaction, combinations, and mutations of say, hox-genes to see when deviations become substantial between different species, phyla.
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It would be interesting to compare the hox genes of these lizards with those of their ancestral lizard species and with their cousins the snakes.
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Actually, the hox cluster and code studied in this paper appear to be pretty ancient as well.
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There's also the weird facet that hox genes are only rudimentary present in cnidarians, making the complexity of wnts even more fascinating.
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There's also the weird facet that hox genes are only rudimentary present in cnidarians, making the complexity of wnts even more fascinating.
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Exploring ignorance: genetic complexity and the hox genes
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Continue reading “Exploring ignorance: genetic complexity and the hox genes”.
seanahan commented on the word hox
Used to describe an interesting class of genes.
April 15, 2009