Medical Definition of Homeotic mutant
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A mutant in which one body part, organ or tissue, is transformed into another part normally associated with another segment.
Examples are the antennapedia and bithorax mutants of Drosophila.
This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology
(11 Mar 2008)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Homeotic Mutant
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