Homeobox at Medical Drugs Glossary

What is Homeobox? A short stretch of nucleotides whose base sequence is virtually identical in all the genes that contains it. It has been found in many organisms from fruit flies to human beings. In the fruit fly, a homeobox appears to determine when particular groups of

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