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microhomology

noun

Etymology

From micro- + homology.

  1. derived from ὁμολογία — “agreement, assent”
  2. borrowed from homologia
  3. prefixed as microhomology — “micro + homology”

Definitions

  1. The presence of the same short sequence of bases in different genes

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for microhomology. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA